It shouldn’t even be just you and others with dyslexia either.

Processing images is always faster than processing text for everyone.

It depends on the images. Processing a dozen of very similar-looking small gray blobs isn’t fast. Recognizing the text labels is faster for many people. The text labels also have visual structure within a menu by their different lengths that the icons don’t.

I would argue this is only true when the image is apt. In Tahoe I don't think this is always true. The lack of consistency in layout and presence of icons is also visually difficult to process. The signal to noise ratio of the icon gutter is very poor.

I like it in theory but the execution seems more harmful than helpful so far. If I'm wrong and it's helping some people, that's great.