The majority of the world is mobile-first.

Material's desktop experience definitely needs to continue improving. I'm trying to see Material's design as how desktop users of the future might work, who grew up mobile-first, unlike most of today's desktop users who grew up in a desktop first world.

Material has a number of headstarts a headstart due to it's "card" lineage coming from the designer of Palm, and WebOS.

https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/matias-duarte-google-is-...