Categorised Icons

I appear to have lost the ability to have a categorised Icon view of the Application Menu, getting a sub-menu view instead.

I'm guessing this was a design decision in a recent update, and while it does navigate easier from the keyboard, it makes launching less frequently used applications (not pinned to the dock) very difficult on a touch-screen device. The uncategorised view is a massive mult-page (11 pages, on my primary system) mess of icons all thrown in together. Some of those icons (from non-curated apps, mostly) have the same image, and the same name, with a different description depending on the category they are in... All of which is lost in the uncategorised list, save for the tooltip which, again, is quite difficult to trigger in a touch-screen configuration.

I wouldn't want to take the keyboard navigation away from users who find pointing and clicking a difficult manoeuvre, or one which distracts from a primarily keyboard based operation (such as coding, or scripting) but feel that, if anything should have gone to support this, it should have been the uncategorised view. The only situation where that is useful is for *very* limited systems with less applications available than elementaryOS ships with. (though, selecting the categories with stodgy fingers has always been tricky, and I often wanted to be able to swipe the individual app pain up and down between categories, as well as left and right between panes of apps) Better yet, maybe the view selector should become tri-state, like the one in Pantheon files?

I didn't see any mention of this change on the elementaryOS blog, or the reasons behind it, and didn't see any other "issue" raised regarding it when searching the issue tracker. (I'm sorry if I missed anything)