Yes. And I saw both immediately. The only issue is not visibility -- it's that people might conflate them as parts of the background image.
But that's just because you only see them now over that one image. After you've seen them with the background (album art?) changed, you'd know immediately what it is and where.
Visibility is an issue. If the album artwork has a white background the time and date are actually impossible to discern. But even in the image I posted it's unacceptably difficult. In fact even with the default background and no album artwork it is unacceptably difficult (in my opinion) with the text being white, with no shadow or outline and such a thin typeface.
I do assume that the album artwork will be repositioned or some other measures will be taken before release though, given how egregious the issues are (specifically regarding the album artwork). I'm less hopeful that they'll add a layer between the text and background as in the old version, or just a text shadow or outline, but that is what they ought to do.
>Visibility is an issue. If the album artwork has a white background the time and date are actually impossible to discern.
Sure, but only having seen the image and not the UI live, I don't know if they change the date/time colours when the background image changes to whiter. Perhaps they do?
If the BG is set to entirely white then the text will indeed be black. However, even quite light BG's (which aren't fully white) do not trigger this switch. So hopefully they adjust this threshold. (Edit: they only do this for the background currently, not album artwork. I've seen album art which was white, completely drowning out the time and date.)
Unfortunately, even if they did that, it would not alleviate issues where there is too much detail in the background (as in a photo or perhaps some abstract art design). In that case the text would still be difficult or impossible to read, regardless of color, since it would blend into all that detail.
