Why was this abandoned? The arguments in favor of not changing are mostly on a personal level ignoring the complaints that the current big square behaviour affects usability (I went more in detail about this in another comment).

Any news on this OSD behaviour? The default notifications is incredibly obnoxious and it just seems like a horrible design decision to use an icon that covers about 20% of screen width/height and blocks whatever was below it right at the center of the screen, which tends to just be whatever the user was previously looking at, and they are now forced to wait for the notification to time out in order to be able to continue doing whatever they were doing. These notifications are not important enough to warrant my focus for 2 seconds every time a change happens (and I'm forced to focus on them because of the current behaviour), but just hiding them away like it currently happens is very counter intuitive. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place but I've just spent about 2 hours looking for ways to fix this while baffled by the difficulty of changing what seemed simple and this seemed like the most promising discussion to talk in.