I think it would be helpful and help to avoid a lot of mission problem reports if every time a new waypoint/task was assigned, it were displayed in the left corner in its expanded state.
Last night, for example, I was playing the mission where you go out in the Cutter to inspect fishing vessels. At one point, you are told to return to Sydney, so I did. I got to the exit waypoint and nothing happened. I saved and reloaded the game, with no better luck. I sailed away and then back to the waypoint - no change.
After about 15 minutes of this, I was about to quit when I remembered to expand the task reminder in the upper left corner. Well, what do you know?! I was supposed to wait for some other vessel to follow me back. Had the full task description been displayed when it was first presented, I would have known that right away.
Certainly not a critical issue, but I think it would be a nice gameplay enhancement with the side benefit of reducing mission posts on the forums.