No option that I can find to use small icons in the taskbar. It looks fugly as it is... too big. It's a shame because I'm really liking the overall appearance otherwise.
Feedback posted but now I can't find that also, not having a good day it seems.
Here is my feedback:
https://aka.ms/AAd0xla
You can use this workaround, I whish they put back the option in Taskbar Settings.

Edit:
Just keep in mind that using TasbarSi = 0 causes a problem on the system tray:
The far right icons end up off center to the bottom and the date gets chopped off and becomes unreadable.
This was verified on 2 desktops with Build 22000.71. See the difference in the 2 pictures below:
TaskbarSI = 0, problem icons off center and date cut off and unreadable:

TaskbarSI = 1, Nomal medium size (Same without the registry change) :
