There was another change that came with the pop-up help that was a complete step backwards.

I'm not sure about mouse and keyboard, but with a gamepad there's a button that will select your status effects. Before when you did this the black would stretch down accordingly and the description of the selected status effect would be displayed immediately.



Now you have to sit and wait for pop-up help to take its sweet time for each effect you check, in which time the effect(s) could have faded too soon for the new pop-up help to tell you what's going on with your character. In extreme cases you could be dead by the time you realize your health is dropping from DoT effects, rather than be given time to react and heal.

This downgrade can be especially annoying with effects that share the same symbol.