I don't know what to tell you.

You seem pretty convinced that each menu item needs its own unique icon, and it doesn't seem like anything I say is going to lead you to understand why others would see that as overly complex and less helpful.

Good luck with your own UX!

> You seem pretty convinced that each menu item needs its own unique icon

Tell me you didn't read what I wrote without telling me that.

Literal quote: "So why does Google use an icon for every single item? It's enough to have just a single icon on the first item in the group, the rest will naturally be associated with it."

The rest of my text is showing how your defense of "let's use a generic icon for completely different actions for every menu item" falls apart even with the tiniest of scrutinies

> it doesn't seem like anything I say is going to lead you to understand why others would see that as overly complex and less helpful.

Literally every menu in every Google Docs is full with unique icons for every menu item except this context menu BTW.

You'd know that if you weren't so hellbent on defending incompetence.