Ugh, they made the buttons in the top bar no longer look like buttons :/ I hate this design trend
* I guess it's possible screen readers can see it is a link
"Looks cleaner" shouldn't have to be the mortal enemy of "easier to use", but it seems that too often things come down on one side or the other.
Jump used to jump, and run used to run, and that was that.
Let's use the Batman Arkham series for example. Every button seems to do something else depending on context and I can't keep track anymore.
To me the most overloading part is the pacing and degrees of freedom. Everything is moving everywhere, yet somehow they manage to feel at home and instinctively act clean while I struggle to pursue the basics. I guess it's just young brains being too good at sipping whatever is required to play, while we're having to fit our legacy views and needs.
Not to suggest that this is a good UI (highly Gnome-styled apps like this tend to have trouble getting the right elements promoted to the toolbar and leave important things buried in menus or omitted entirely), but “I can’t figure out what’s clickable” here feels like you’re being deliberately obtuse.