What's disgusting about it? How do you want it to look?
I'm wondering this as well. I don't think the iOS 8 UI is too bad. A little wasteful and way too close to the iPhone UI on iPad, but it looks fine I think. My main issue is the dock, with the translucency it looks really cool to me, but it covers too much of the wallpaper. This causes many wallpapers to look gross because it's so covered up. The shadow at the bottom of the home screen right above the dock in iOS 4-6 made wallpapers look amazing. Plus there was a good amount of blending from the icons to the wallpaper because of the drop shadows. Other than that though, I think for how iOS is heading now, the iOS 7-8 design is better. More flexible to add more features, more clean, more modern. The iOS 6 and below design looked great, but it was getting really stale.
I'm pretty sure I prefer this
Over what would likely be a combination of these