OS 9 and the dots that appeared on top of watch screen

I am furious of the latest update IOS 9. There were very useful little dots appearing on top of the screen : green for notification, and arrow when a podcast or music was played, little map dot for map, green dot when exercising that enabled one to keep on having a pleasant watch face and a quick way to switch to whatever was going on.

Who decided to get rid of them? At least give us the possibility to choose how we want to manage that because your “now playing” is bulky and requires more steps I feel I am on an old PC….