In T2677#112558, @lancake wrote:

So should all this truly be disabled? [R] to X something was always there before and could also not be disabled. Does it get in the way or?

This is simply not true – '[R] to X' wasn't always there before 0.200, the attached screenshots are from 0.199.654#20170826_140955 aka. the latest 'pre' build, and it wasn't there in any of the 'release' or 'pre' builds before that, either. It would have driven me nuts long ago if it had been.

Obviously it does get in the way, otherwise I wouldn't have reported it, and obviously people were somehow managing to play the game before, even without this 'essential' information.

I think it is a great addition for new players, better than the previous 'help' display, but for at least some people who know their key assignments, it's intrusive and obnoxious.
If you'll forgive the crude metaphors, it's like a baby sibling always trying to tell you what they just learned, which you have mastered years ago, or that bright blue indicator LED on some TVs that's constantly yelling at you 'the TV is on', especially annoying in low-light scenes...

I'm not asking for it all to be permanently disabled, having it set to 'All' by default is perfectly fine, but please give those who don't want that essential information in their face all the time an option to revert back to the (non-)display of 0.199.654.

Would it be so problematic to rename 'None' to 'Essential only' or 'Minimal', and add 'None' as another setting that really does what it says?

screenshots from 0.199.654:

0.200.162 for comparison:

That's because we removed the old "X: do Y" indicators when we replaced them with the ones near your mouse. A mistake on our part since these new context ones used to be there permanently and only later in those dev builds did we add an option to fully turn them off, without realizing the old indicators weren't there to replace them.

and obviously people were somehow managing to play the game before, even without this 'essential' information.

Because the info was always there before the current release (and its pre, dev builds), go back a few more versions and you get this (0.199.402):

Were those old ones better then? I don't recall seeing a single bug report telling me the old ones got in the way, so I imagine they don't get in the way.
Do we need to bring those back and an option to disable them too or?

In T2677#112703, @lancake wrote:

That's because we removed the old "X: do Y" indicators when we replaced them with the ones near your mouse. A mistake on our part since these new context ones used to be there permanently and only later in those dev builds did we add an option to fully turn them off, without realizing the old indicators weren't there to replace them.

I see. I could have sworn they weren't there before that, but...

and obviously people were somehow managing to play the game before, even without this 'essential' information.

Because the info was always there before the current release (and its pre, dev builds), go back a few more versions and you get this (0.199.402):

...you're right, I went back and looked for myself.

Were those old ones better then? I don't recall seeing a single bug report telling me the old ones got in the way, so I imagine they don't get in the way.
Do we need to bring those back and an option to disable them too or?

Yes, from my perspective they were better because
a) they weren't attached to the reticle, so they weren't always in the centre of your view
b) they occupied less screen estate because they were simple, small text, no fancy graphics borders
c) the weren't restricted in area for displaying the key value, see the first and last of the 0.200 screenshots - the text that should be displayed is 'NUMPADENTER' like here, from 0.199.132:

which incidentally also illustrates another bug. - it should be "[Z] to enter", 'NUMPADENTER' is what I have bound to 'Exit Ship'

And yes, please do consider adding an option to completely disable them, even if you revert back to the old model.

Feedback:
First off, thank you for adding the crucial/none setting, it is very helpful in assessing the usability with/without any on-screen indicators.

After some experimentation, my impression is that the most profound impact comes from the text now being attached to the reticle instead of the block you're looking at. I think that is why I was so convinced that the information hadn't been there earlier, when in fact it was - because it was so unobtrusive. It was there when you need it, but it never got in the way. That's what is really different now – in my opinion it's a change for the worse, and given a choice, I'd prefer the way it was before.

I really like the option of "no information" in flight mode because knowing whether a block can be interacted with is a learning process and you may or may not appreciate that reminder, it all comes down to personal preference I guess.
However I agree that in build mode there is dynamic information that is essential, and that can't simply be memorized - "none" isn't really helpful there.
My ideal combination would be "none" in flight mode, and "crucial" in build mode, or "none" with some hotkey that enables the info overlay on demand, similar to the way <shift> works now. Maybe that functionality could be built upon to include the dynamic info?