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>The text is there, it's simply been converted into tooltips. Are you really going to need to have the text there after using the button a few dozen times?

Multiply this attitude by a hundred apps/websites and YES I WANT TEXT. I don't use the toolbars of half my apps because I don't know what the buttons do, and I shouldn't have to work to find out.

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There's a balance between using additional screen real estate for more info and the user having to take an extra step to get that additional info, such as hovering over a button. For some people, such as myself, there is more work involved for the eyes that have to scan over that extra content everyday as compared to hovering over an unknown button once in a blue moon.

but the icon buttons are bigger than the text they replaced!

And even if they're not, I have to do mental work: icon -> wtf does this picture mean -> english translation. I find that far more tedious than standard word scanning.

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