Well that's a bummer that you don't have that option. A suggestion would be to two-finger swipe your notification panel down to display all your quick settings, tap the 3 dots, select button grid, and go with 3 wide. That will make the icons and text a tad bigger, then in the future, you can do the two-finger swipe down just a little until you see your connected WiFi name.
If it makes you feel any better, Verizon took away some good phone features that other carrier models have. They really gyped us of years device maintenance features.
