I suggest you right-click on the "Close All Editors" button and choose the option to hide it. This will make it move to the "..." overflow menu which arrived on the open Editors view in 1.97 when the new Configure 'Open Editors' command was added to the view.

I've tried this several other combos of hiding stuff here and nothing removes the pointless ellipsis

It's not pointless. As is the convention with other views' action bars it gives access to actions that don't have their own button on the title bar.

@nyoung697 did my suggestion solve your muscle memory issue?

This is bothering me also. It would be nice to let us hide the ellipsis.

Its a big change for anyone who has been using this in their workflow. For example click "Close all editors" and then click right below "Collapse folders in explorer" is a nice way to clean the editor from last thing you were doing and continue to the next.

Now its a bit painful and slow to find that "Close all editors" button since you have to look for it instead of it being always the rightmost item.

@lennu please see my comment at #241025 (comment)

Even though I like the idea of the configure action, I'm considering reverting the change. My long term idea would have been to add this to all views which have settings, however, I see that this will lead to having overflow actions on many views where there currently is none. This will break a lot of users muscle memory and clutter the view titles. If we consider such an action to be of value, we could consider other ways of exposing this. Maybe view context menu...?

Per #108271 (comment) it seems likely that Explorer view will someday acquire a "..." button. Rather than reverting the change that introduced it to Open Editors I suggest getting it added to Explorer ASAP (see #108271 (comment)), even if we extension developers have to wait a bit longer for the menu contribution point to get implemented.

Pinging @lramos15

See #241025 (comment).

Basically, please don't clutter vscode with ... menus everywhere. They need to make sense, and frankly I agree with OP, they are pointless. They could just as well go into the right-click menu, which astoundingly is yet another more different menu on the same element.

Per #108271 (comment) it seems likely that Explorer view will someday acquire a "..." button. Rather than reverting the change that introduced it to Open Editors I suggest getting it added to Explorer ASAP (see #108271 (comment)), even if we extension developers have to wait a bit longer for the menu contribution point to get implemented.

Pinging @lramos15

I think the true solution we need is to be able to promot and demote any action into a ... menu or out of ... menu and have that hide or show it.

That way the extension authors could then contribute and it would automatically start rendering .... Rather than us adding ... everywhere just for there to be contribution points.

I have submitted PR #241268 to allow the button to be hidden.