Yeah my major concern with this redesign is the significant decrease in discoverability. While the current design certainly does come across as a "big blob of controls", if you can get yourself to read the labels you at least know what is possible. With the redesign you have to click through and/or hover over controls to even learn what can be done.
Of course this is a fundamental tension, you cannot both have a highly discoverable and a simple looking interface at the same time.
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