Hiding dock icon text?

After a short while a Mac user soon knows what each icon on their dock represents and the popup text only serves a purpose to those not familiar with the Mac owners dock. With this in mind, the dock and overall look of the desktop is cleaner if the icon text is removed. Does anyone know a way to do this?
Thank you.

There must be a way, perhaps using a command via Terminal, it's a small change and should be easy for a developer, if it's possible. I've searched and searched online but found nothing.

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RAX: 0xffffff7fa3602420, RBX: 0x0000000000002c77, RCX: 0x0000000000002d1c, RDX: 0x0000000000000019
RSP: 0xffffff820c4b3a30, RBP: 0xffffff820c4b3ac0, RSI: 0xffffff81c01e7268, RDI: 0x0000000000002d1c
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