To be clear, you are not seeing ether tool icon? Text on a path. Text inside a shape or enclosed path?
I am trying to think of conditions that might cause that, but it sounds broken to me. As you can see, mine is working and I am also use 26.3 and the same Windows version. If you have not taken Brett's advice and reset Preferences, which is always a pain, you could try resetting All Tools which would be less disruptive.
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