I would also like the ability to toggle this on and off. My eyes read it as a visual obstruction more than anything else, kinda like animated fluorescent tube lighting overtop of my icons. It's just a sea of rolling white lines that blots out all the colours, and it's the colours I look for to see what's ready and what isn't. The old gray shaded icons were just right for me.

That being said, I *love* the idea of the little numbers ticking down, but I just find the white clock circles so distracting that it's hard for me to focus on them. If I could get rid of the big bubbles and keep the little numbers, that'd be awesome.