I actually find the rollover state for the Friends icon to be more egregious.
It will show you Friends right there, you can see without even a button press, but it's a truncated vertical list that shows maybe the first 3, with acres of real estate on either side, and it looks horribly unbalanced as well. Like just tile that shit, you have the info, we COULD be seeing Friends online with a mere rollover, but noooo.
Maybe they will fix it as the iOS app actually did some fixes like that.