Fair points. I agree the flat monochrome design of today have issues. The example you linked is atrocious. > What's the point of not using words on the buttons

Fair points. I agree the flat monochrome design of today have issues. The example you linked is atrocious. > What's the point of not using words on the buttons that open menus, when the menu's contents are entirely words? The truth is that real estate became incredibly constrained with mobile, and hover also disappeared. Imo the hamburgers and triple dots are close to how good you can get on mobile. There's little point in adding the word "menu" or "options". Basically any text you add on mobile would take full screen width to be safe in all languages. And thats pretty much what open menus look like - they take over the whole screen. Due to mobile being the primary target, a lot of devs reuse those GUIs for much bigger screens, which is unfortunate.