you can shrink it down so it only displays a single row of icons.
I’m aware of this, but even that single row of icons is very fat compared to the rest of the bars that exist on the browser (e.g. the window bar, the bookmarks bar, the search bar, etc). It just looks out of place.
Haha, it’s funny that you went that far. I think the reason why I notice it and you don’t, is the 4k factor. My screen is 1920x1200 iirc.