Major lack of clarity with new hud and blue/grey ability pictures

Has anyone from Riot said anything about how difficult it is to see in your peripherals whether an ability is on cooldown or not in the new HUD when the ability picture is blue or grey? I was just playing Morde in ARAM and it was awful. With the old HUD you didn't have to actually look at your abilities to see whether they were on cooldown or not - you could tell from your peripheral vision. The new blue circle makes that impossible. There are way too many VFX in the HUD. It has too much going on in a completely different way than how Riot said the old HUD had too much going on.