I agree, thats bad. And for example the "icon only" thing follows a bad but hip UI pattern where designers assume the knowledge of the icon meaning of the user. They should not in my opinion. I mean, in the end, you can decide. 1. To learn all this new patterns in windows. or 2. Move on to another, more stable window environment like gnome or KDE or whatever. In the end, its all about the effort for now and on the long run. And you get forced to calculate that because of the introduced change.