This is awesome -- thank you for taking the time to write out this thoughtful feedback. We just removed some of the animations, specifically the stuff zooming

This is awesome -- thank you for taking the time to write out this thoughtful feedback. We just removed some of the animations, specifically the stuff zooming up and down the right-hand column. We'll work through some of these other thoughts as well. For what it's worth, you should be able to click the text to close the annotation mode, and soon you'll be able to hit esc to close it. One funny thing about the original design, where the text was all the way on the left, was that quite a few people complained that the text should be default in the middle. We're learning quickly that there will always be some trade-offs.