Why not just have the dateline static? Why make the user hover for it to show? (Does it appear on touch devices?) Why does the top-right svbtle menu start as a

Why not just have the dateline static? Why make the user hover for it to show? (Does it appear on touch devices?) Why does the top-right svbtle menu start as a dot? Why not just keep it in its expanded state? The scrollbar on OS X appears white, despite there being a white background. I don't know why. Why is the Kudos button presented on the side and at the bottom? Don't you only want people to do that after they've read it? It kind of mucks things up. Same for the author dot in the lower-right. I like Medium's friendly author photos, but I guess svbtle is about the author iconography.