Change the Hotspot selected area-answer indicator?

Hello, re-booting this issue-- is there now some way to show/hide that spinner wheel for hotspot selection? The layers workaround doesn't work because it doesn't let us use the other default hotspot features we need for quick development. Lots of work to do here and these workarounds cost more time than we can afford or teach a whole team of newbies to do. And the spinner is confusing end-user clients, who keep thinking it means the computer has stalled, which is its most common meaning.