Personally yes, I strongly want the symbol next to the flagholder ingame. Everything else in CTF is red and blue, so seeing a little orange symbol makes me think "oh this is a flag holder, this is actually important." BlurredD made a good decision adding that to the game. And of course you want it for all the other gamemodes and mutators.

I'm absolutely open to discussion about where the flag (, padlock, star, brain, skull, assorted mutator icons...) should appear in the player list or the chat. I would just caution people to wait a few days before having strong opinions. Whenever there's a visual change, it's really easy to say the old way was better no matter what the change was. First impressions aren't always the most reliable.

One particular problem with having the symbol be on the right of the player's name in the player list is that it looks bad on players with long names. It starts running into their stats and making everything hard to read. If the symbol is always in the exact same horizontal spot in the list, independent of the length of players' names, it should be much easier to find.