I'm with you on this. The new font and the "writing" animation are both really great but something about the drop shadow and thin outline on the text make it look kinda... amateur Photoshop-y. Maybe a little more blur, losing the outline and making the backing darker would have been better imo. It definitely stuck out to me in an otherwise super polished presentation.
Yeah. I imagine they didn't have many options with that font. Over black it looks great, over bright images and with shadows it doesn't look as hot.
I also imagine that a dark font was out of the question.