The statistics column, which appears on every content list page, uses icons instead of text for multiple reasons:
- to keep the width similar to the Replies / Views column width in thread listings
- text in each statistics cell was unnecessarily repetitive
- with the text in the cell, there was a waste of horizontal space
I agree that placing the text in the popup may increase clarity, but I would not classify this as a bug. I have reclassified this as an improvement request.
There is no bug with the popup creating a hand cursor that persists everywhere on the page. This is necessary for any popup to work correctly on iOS devices. Without it, it is impossible to close popups on iOS.