Has anyone discovered any way to toggle any of these new features they've added to the UI and such? The one that bugs me the most is the visual clock-like countdown of the debuffs on npcs, similar to how your own cooldowns operate visually. I really dislike this, it makes them less visible, and I prefer other methods for duration control anyway.

Are there some lines in the config I can edit, any console commands and such? I'm pretty annoyed that they didnt put in any options to turn this crap on/off, considering they changed many things in one patch. After playing for 2.5 years I dont really want to get used to something different.

In the interface options screen one of the check boxes is new 'status text' or something like that. It's in the upper left hand corner. Took me ages trying to figure out what that was as well.

Yes, but that now turns off or on status bar text for everyone - your own unit frame, and your party's unit frame.

I've heard CT_UnitFrame can fix this, I was reluctant to download something that said it was a 'unit frame' mod, since I want the Blizzard standard UI for the most part, but on careful inspection of the code, it might work since it actually hooks into the standard UI, it looks like.