Ha hah. This just shows how ignorance works. Even my 2018 GT1 has the option to simplify or turn OFF the selected drive mode display. Nearly seven and a half years in, and I only discovered this just now after reading
@AdamNZ 's post above. I have selected the simple version now and may turn it off altogether, since the LCD screen between the gauges is enough information on which drive mode you are in, or changing to. I don't like redundancy much.
By the way, the car icon used to be very Stinger-like, but subsequent navigation screen updates turned it into this ugly generic thing.