"Are there too many options in the nav bar making users overwhelmed?" Exactly this. A lot of people wont even bother scanning the drop down list of options for

"Are there too many options in the nav bar making users overwhelmed?" Exactly this. A lot of people wont even bother scanning the drop down list of options for more than a couples seconds it seems. It would be nice to know how wide spread of an issue this is. " What widespread implications are you thinking of? " Basically they type in where the want to go, or what they want to do, and the search bar takes them to the exact page directly. No UI, just an api.