After removing the app name and icon, the next natural step that was requested from the design team is to add workspaces indicators to the top bar, where...
This saves me an extension, but i dont see it fully solving the issue of "its not clear its opens the overview" that the activities button had. Someone recommended to include a tip in gnome tour so that might help to solve it.
In the mockup, a suggestion was made which i think looks very interesting in the animation they provided
Oh I like the look of that! I'm generally very happy with how Gnome looks/works and don't use extensions that modify the UI, but if someone slapped together on that did this, I might actually use it.
That's right. But the way (I think) it's going to work, the Applications button will be replaced by the new workspace indicator thing, and clicking it will still open the application grid.
So there won't be a button labeled Applications anymore...