How Fast Can Google Destroy Android?

How Fast Can Google Destroy Android?

This is a time - "2:39". Two numbers attached by a colon tells you it's a time. Google apparently does not know this.

The Android 12 lock screen displays 2:39 as

02
39

The two numbers are not connected and there is no punctuation. People have been trained since the beginning of digital clocks to recognize a time. This is NOT a time.

Furthermore, the digits are huge and when they change, if they are in my field of view, it is very distracting.

This is on the lock screen of always on screens on modern phones. There is no alternative setting. This is my PRIMARY clock. I use it as my alarm clock and carry clock.

If there happens to be a notification on the lock screen, the display becomes a recognizable time. That's great. But if you have no notification on the lock screen, and then one shows up, and then it disappears (such as my weather app doing an update), the clock switches from awful to good and back to awful.

I just spent the entire evening adding a feature to my clock widget app (you can get this new/test version from rs.ravitz.us ). If you turn on the "RS" option, it keeps a persistent "RS" notification on the phone. I hope it's persistent anyway, it's still there after fifteen minutes. This fixes the issue but keeps an otherwise pointless notification on the phone.

Google - do your software designers use Android? Do they care whether it is useful, not annoying, functional?