I thought it before the announcement and i still think this is a failure in design. At first i actually thought they where kidding me when they first shown of the new iOS7, how can they come up with this as a result? with the resources they got. From a pure design perspective (in my opinion) the metro style homescreen (win8) with pure colors and big tiles are a better design than the new iOS7 homescreen. To vibrant to much gradient in inverse directions, to much details and it looks overworked, to little and it looks unfinished.
At least they didn't took their time and brought it to OSX.
Sorry Apple.