@jakeblended
yeah, usually it just stays alpha until it changes. 🙂 no biggie for me though, stability is most important factor personally, even though the autosave is amazing in blender, i still rather not lose work. 2.79 is stable as a rock. Though even that you can crash with viewport cycles rendering when changing shader settings haphazardly 😀
right call to delay it anyhow. personally i don’t need the new ui layout, i work fullscreen mode without t and n panels and only bring those out when there is specific thing i do where i don’t get those from fullscreen mode.