Are you responding based on experience on the console? Because the UI on console is entirely redesigned from the ground up compared to the UI on the PC (I play on both). The two bear no relation to each other.
We already had this discussion in the general form when I brought this up in a thread about weapon vs skill type. A few PC users kept chiming in with great ways to figure out the skill damage type that only applied to the PC and doubted me until I posted a screen shot of just how different (and information sparse) the UI is on the Console. You can read the back and forth on this thread: