[Ayatana] Where did the top folding go?

[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've been bugging Neil Patel about this on Twitter lately
and would like to know what the rest of the team has to say.

It seems that Unity has purposefully dropped the ability to
fold icons on top and now only folds the bottom ones. Even
after some weeks, I still think it's very awkward to use
because it feels like a scrollbar that always returns to
the top when you leave it: an icon folded at the bottom will
always re-fold even though it was the last icon clicked.

This kinda goes against muscle memory and gives an unbalanced
distribution of importance among the icons: the top ones are
always faster to access. At least for me, it is very common
for the workflow to be focused on the more recently opened
windows, which are precisely the bottom ones.

Neil mentioned possibilities of making the active window icon
more noticeable even when it's in the folded area. This would
be nice, but the unbalance would still be there.

What was, after all, the reasoning for removing top folding?