I’m so surprised people hate the icons. I quite like them. Both functional and aesthetically-pleasing.
Few people complain about the transparency, which is both ugly and hostile to usability.
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I've seen a bunch of complaints for both. Both are kinda bad.
The 👆 icons 🖼️ just seemed 👀 mostly like unnecessary 🤷 visual 👓 clutter 🗑️.
Strange. I’ll take the icons over sentences that verge into paragraphs when stacked up in a menu any day of the week.
And for clutter in general, I’ll take that over playing hide-and-seek with disappearing buttons.
I can think of only one app I use that’s a riot of buttons with icons that don’t distinguish themselves sufficiently.
It’s damnatio memoriæ on that design-bro who left for Meta.