diff --git a/src/styles/points/points.js b/src/styles/points/points.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/src/styles/points/points.js
+++ b/src/styles/points/points.js
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ Object.assign(Points, {
     },
 
     // Default to trying all anchor placements
-    default_anchor: ['bottom', 'top', 'right', 'left', 'bottom-right', 'bottom-left', 'top-right', 'top-left'],
+    default_anchor: ['bottom', 'top', 'right', 'left'],
 
     // Compute label layout-related properties
     computeLayout (target, feature, draw, context, tile) {
reduce default point text anchors to just top/bottom/left/right (no diagonals)
in dense London view, diagonals added <I>% more labels but in exchange for <I>% slower build time due to <I>% more collisions
diagonals can be explicitly set per-style if desired, this only changes the default