Hot take time. Actual professionals use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate or bring to the forefront whatever they need in Intellij (the JB product I use)

Hot take time. Actual professionals use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate or bring to the forefront whatever they need in Intellij (the JB product I use) If you are clicking through menus all day or are otherwise negatively affected to such a degree by a visual change like this, you are an amateur So really, JetBrains is bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of... amateurs This world for amateurs exists exists, as a crutch, within the larger world of the professional product. However, the world of professional usage of Intellij remains essentially unchanged (granted, the new icons and extra negative space are annoying, they just are not significant) TLDR: git gud, use a keyboard