The outcry for the new UI is a bit exaggerated

Couple things to this:

The UI is functional on a PC screen, but for console players on a large TV, they need to literally turn their head multiple directions to get information.

The status bars for exhaustion, etc, are still completely not colorblind friendly, I am incapable of seeing where they are on the bar. Frustrating when they listened when it came to the injured portraits.

The gens left are in a spot you will never look naturally. There are some reasons, especially as killer, to be looking in the bottom left for a hiding survivor. I can say I've never looked up at the top center naturally unless I'm playing Huntress and going for a longshot snipe. It's lead to me struggling as both sides to keep accurate count of the gens left which is a problem.

General UI design is to cluster like information so that a quick glance tells the player everything they need. The old UI did this very well, with everything but perks in the same spot. Now to see how the game is going you need to look top center, top left, middle left if you're killer, top left for longer if you're survivor, bottom left to check power/item stats, and bottom right to check perks. Compare that to the old UI, which had it so you had to look bottom left and bottom right to get the state of the game, and it's objectively worse.

The reason people are so mad about this is it affects every game. Balanced isn't in every game, DS isn't in every game, Nurse (rest her soul) isn't in every game. BL removal was for a weekend and nothing came of it. This is in every single game, you cannot avoid it, so it's something everyone who hates it has to deal with every time they ready up. The outcry as a result is balanced in proportion to how often you deal with it.

No. No it's not.

You can clearly see most of the community disagreeing with the change. That doesn't make it exaggerated. This is the same thing people say when a show is popular (Because for some reason it nails certain aspects and attracts many viewers) and think it's overrated.

This. Also, a lot of people are (in my opinion, justifiably) unhappy with the Devs for how the situation has been handled thus far. A lot of things that people are having issues with as far as UI were also present in the PTB, so for a lot of people, it feels like their feedback on the Public Test Build was useless.

I feel like I just played 3 times more games than I have. My eyes are tired and having to dart to all the corners of the screen is disorienting when playing. It's just not a good design. It's not a "getting used to" thing!

Honestly I don't think so.

A lot of important elements are much smaller than they used to be. Survivor's healthbars for being slugged, deep wounded, or hooked are not only out of the way, but very small meaning it can be easy to not notice the bar is almost empty.

Buff/Debuff icons are also much harder to notice in my experience. I've been unhooked and granted BT/We'll Make It and not notice immediately due to the lack of notice these icons now have. Same with Thana and Dying Light.

I also notice I have much less awareness of my survivor's health states. Before it was very easy to know the exact moment another survivor was hit as the icons would glows for a small duration when the state changed. Now it overlays the injured state over the survivor portrait, but the portrait doesn't glow up to bring attention to it.

Overall the UI feels very uninformative. The information is there, but it doesn't try to bring your attention to the important information.

Boy oh boy, I'm in a mood, so here. We. Go!

But I've already adjusted to it, and that means pretty much anyone can.

Just because you adjusted to something that is bad doesn't mean that the bad thing is good. I can adjust to a belt being on too tightly and rubbing me wrong while doing my job, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. In any case, it's not a matter of "adjusting to bad". It's a matter of something needing improvement and a passionate community voicing that issue. If anything, it's a good thing that the community is so together in bringing this up, because it shows they care and that the normal bias issues aren't present. Furthermore, UIs/HUDs are a big deal in games. The original UI was very well designed on account of it's simplicity. The new one being all over the place and scattered looks like you're trying to play a game while you also have the K/D score pulled up on the side. It's silly.

But to say that the game is "unplayable", to say that it's "ruined", to say that it's "dead" because of a UI change is just ridiculous.

Yes. It is ridiculous. It's also a tactic that goes as far back as all of mankind to make an overblown response to something in order to express your feelings on it. Some of the greatest minds in history have used this tactic for their own ends. A bunch of people playing cat and mouse on the internet is by no means above such methods.

Y'all are making the pushback against the Nurse nerf, the DS nerf, the bloodlust removal, the Balanced nerf, and everything else seem like nothing compared to this.

It's a global issue that resonates with the entire community. Almost NOBODY likes the new HUD. It's barely debated, it's just accepted as being bad. As stated earlier, this is actually a big deal, as the community is almost entirely behind the opinion. For the devs, this is actually a bit of a good thing, because they can see EVERYONE disliking the change and go "Oh, this isn't some bias thing with one side or another, everyone agrees we need to change it". That gives them a clear and obtainable goal without having to worry about upsetting people with a good fix. Other changes, such as balance changes, will always have fans and detractors based on how they are affected. The HUD is almost ALL detractors. It's a clear sign to the devs that they need to improve it.

If y'all were up in arms about actual important issues the game has instead of being petty and choosing sides all the time, I'm sure DBD would be much better right about now.

People are "up in arms" about all kinds of issues, all the time. This one simply has global appeal. It's also not THAT hard to fix. I have personally worked on UIs/HUDs in the past, and am currently designing one for a small project. They aren't hard to manipulate so long as you know what you are working with. If BHVR can fix this and make a new layout that everyone agrees is an improvement, then some of the more divisive issues stand a better chance of being addressed, as the devs have shown they are more up to the task.

In closing, you're shaming people for wanting quality out of something they paid for. You're shaming them for agreeing that something is bad and needs improvement. You're telling people they should just accept things that are not up to standard. If everyone had YOUR mindset, the community would be dull and unable to bring up potential changes to improve the game, because they'd be too busy "adjusting to it". You're mindset and actions are the problem, not the people that rightfully pointed out an issue with global appeal.

Also reminds me of the people who are making it sound like there is a wave of unwarranted hate speech towards BHVR where the majority of the PTB forums were seemingly mean spirited. The majority of the post in the PTB were thoughtful and constructive and we have a bunch of people on these forums white knighting and complaining that BHVR doesn't deserve the hate they're getting and that we're ungrateful.

What hate? Yeah a good chunk of the community is frustrated but that only came after seemingly most of the feedback was ignored and BHVR stayed silent. It's also like the majority of the people doing this didn't even participate in the PTB. Even some people scolding people complaining are all like "Yeah the UI isn't great but that's no reason to complain".

No words to describe how I feel about some people defending this right now tbh. If they like it that's great but it's to a point where people are making up lies just so they look good because they're a minority.