Annoying status messages in Safari and Mail

In 10.11 Apple introduced some very annoying type of status messages, in the lower left corner of the window, in Safari and Mail.

Instead of having an always visible status bar as it was before, you only see text when something is happening. Eg you hover the mouse over an URL.

This is extremely annoying since it makes the status area flicker a lot. It reminds me of Windoze...

I want the old behavior back, does anyone know how I can get that?

Tia,
Andreas