Icon zoom transition has issues that would need to be resolved before it is usable:
- Spring draws icons at a different location to the widget. This causes most icons to jitter upwards when you zoom out.
- Widget drawn icons are hard to click on. Spring drawn icons have larger hitvolumes than the units themselves. I expect to be able to click on units which are mostly (but not entirely) icons in the same way I can click on Spring icons. Currently my attempts at unit selection mostly miss.
- Small units are set to turn into icons before larger units. Planetwars structures tend to be very large and are set to not become icons for quite a while. Smooth icon transitions destroys this behaviour. This mostly matters for seeing small units.
Icon zoom transition has issues that would need to be resolved before it is usable: