EDITED this comment because I was in a bad mood and was being uncivil to WMF devs.

I'd be fine with an icon, just so we can get some consistency.

Thank you for the mockups.

Today I was only using my laptop touchpad due to unavailability of a mouse, trying to review AfC drafts that are in userspace - where the AfC Helper Script doesn't work so we have to rely on manually clicking on the Review (AFC) button in the Tools menu.

The kebab three dots style menu is user-hostile and bad UX. We know this. We know this. It's been part of basic UX teaching for years at this point.

In T429258#12092117, @StefenTower wrote:

"No one asked for this" is objectively incorrect as someone created this ticket. Also, there were no objections brought up here until today, suggesting that many people were fine with the change. I am fine with the change for the stated reason ("To help preserve space and reduce visual clutter") as well as the statement made earlier that the menu includes more than just tools. Also, this is how many contemporary apps like web browsers situate a list of particular actions and links to tools or information.

Please revert this change and put it back as a Tools submenu. No one asked for this. Tools is a really important part of the AfC reviewer workflow, NPP workflow, and general page maintenance workflow. Having it in a kebab menu is pointless, confusing, and makes it harder for the end-user to understand what is in this new menu.

So is this a fait accompli? Yet again graphic designers need to justify their existence with pointless changes.

Not a fan of some of these new icons at all. They've become very genericised and are missing some of the heart that the old icons had. Esp. agree with the UserTalk and Robot new icons being a real downgrade.