I'm skeptical. It's a distracting feature. And I have to wait for it to fade back in to find the link to switch modes. It's distracting. Worse, this scheme

I'm skeptical. It's a distracting feature. And I have to wait for it to fade back in to find the link to switch modes. It's distracting. Worse, this scheme stinks of that "too cool for its own good" flavor, which means it's going to be implemented badly all over the web by next week. Did I mention it's distracting?