@ctotty -
Thanks so much for the feedback. The people on this forum are wonderful!
Yeah - I went back and forth on the need for visible nav on desktop.
Ultimately though it was a distraction to the “Hi, I’m Scott…” copy.
Interesting (and fair) point on the arrow reading like “a slider button”… hmmmm.
revisit in a week… I may change that. 
really appreciate the input.
-Scott