Can't un-combine taskbar items in Windows 11 after latest update

One side-effect of this new taskbar feel/look is that it dynamically arranges the icons based on how many it decides can fit. So if you run a DOS window with a looping command that runs every 1 min (for loop with sleep 60), your application icons are re-arranging every minute. That's because MS DOS window changes the title depending on what command is currently being run in that DOS window. So you don't even touch your keyboard but the icons in your taskbar are changing, what a circuss show.

On top of that, there is an arbitrary space on the right-hand side of the infamous 3 dots, completely wasted.

C'mon Microsoft, you can do better than that.

Even when you get the "never combine" setting back, they have ruined it. It will blank out half your taskbar for nothing and hide half the minimized programs behind 3 dots like that is what anyone asked for. Something very malicious microsoft is doing in trying to control end user thought. If win12 does not have the Windows 7 interface, I'm moving to Linux.

Same here, I still don't have the option to turn this stupidity off in the Taskbar behavior!

Looks like a long history of hit and miss...

I checked my Windows Update (and I do add anything available) but nothing else to be updated.

Also ran the Troubleshooter as suggested by MS earlier in this thread. Nada.

Mine still has NO OPTION TO COMBINE!!????

What else can I do to get this installed and added properly.

Same issue on public build