Finally.

I have a wide screen monitor and tend to use few apps, but multiple windows for each app.

Most of the taskbar is empty and the app windows are hidden behind multiple clicks because the 'never combine' setting was removed in Windows 11.

We still need to setting to place the taskbar on the sides and top of the screen restored.

A step towards deshittifying the taskbar. Now let me make the icons smaller and move the taskbar to diffrent sides of the screen.

Why did they remove it in the first place? It's not like they rewrote Windows from scratch.