Maybe not the same, but it is a fundamental user experience principle.
"Showing users things they can recognize improves usability over needing to recall items from scratch because the extra context helps users retrieve information from memory."
"Showing users things they can recognize improves usability over needing to recall items from scratch because the extra context helps users retrieve information from memory."
Perhaps if you're restricting context to one app that doesn't have too much going on it's a different story, but compared to 30 years ago there is a lot more people (especially devs, or Starcraft players) need to be doing on the computer at a given time.