Like I said before, I don’t want to argue about it but the truth is it’s probably not going to change. I can go ahead and open a feature request for it but it’s highly unlikely that we’ll revert this change.
It’s funny because, for as many people that are requesting that we change it back to the way it was before, we’ve had just as many (if not more) users prior to this change state that they “hate” the download shelf/think its’ ugly/think that it takes up too much real estate on the screen, etc., and request we change/remove it.
As with most things, there is unfortunately no way to satisfy everyone. There is always going to be some cohort of users (large or small) who are going to be upset and break out the torches whenever a change is made.
Typically, we try and offer flexibility and as many “user options” as feasible when a new feature is added (or removed, changed, etc.) and will continue to do so. However, in this particular instance, we are not likely to maintain a feature that 1 — wasn’t our implementation to begin with (it was inherited) and 2 — goes against what every other browser (Safari, Firefox, Edge, Chrome) is moving towards anyway (note that it sometimes is good to go against what others are doing, but not in this case).
Hope this helps.