Seriously, I don't see why the F9 list needed to be drastically changed. And I've seen the excuse with "newbies not understanding the symbols and letters" too many times now. This is simply not true. In fact, the current F9 list caused much more confusion to players, not even newbies. Personally I find the new admin symbol hideous looking and plain confusing. It looks like some keychain and doesn't resemblance anything that says "this user has admin privileges". The old green "A" could at least give you a hint in that direction.

I agree that the yellow "S" symbol for spectators is not needed since spectators' names are greyed out anyway. And the fact that the flag symbol can be moved is also okay, I guess. Though, I think that we shouldn't have too many more settings added to the game.

About the name spacing for long names, that's just a terrible solution to a user created problem. Blur finally got rid of the spacing that people used to clutter the F9 list with. Please let's keep it that way. If you want to have a neat looking F9 list, maybe there could be a character limit in player names.