[breppp]

did not undergo a stroke, but I find myself often navigating menu by memorizing the location in the menu, I also use the icons for memorizing and then I can speed up by not reading.

The first time I noticed that is the time I needed to operate a Finnish Windows machine and I could get it working pretty good by sheer memory

[troupo]

Then I'd argue that not having icons on every item in the menu, and having groups/separators helps more than just having nearly indistinguishable icons everywhere

[breppp]

maybe, but over use of groups can also be confusing

I find icons helpful to visually anchor things in the menu. It can be noisy when there are 5 identical "paste as" icons but generally I see it as a positive