Windows 10: When will you revert the colossal vertical taskbar mistake?

Since the beginning of time, users have been trying to maximize the smaller vertical space on their laptops and tablets when they work in widescreen mode. It's an obvious preference and one of the reasons Windows was much the preferred joy through Windows 10. Come Windows 11, and this feature has been removed and all we hear for 2 years is to send endless messages to feedback. Well here is mine. I've been reverting all my Windows installations to 10 but now that's not possible with much of my new equipment due to support issues. I've also used workarounds like ExplorerPatch but now it's crashi

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vertical taskbar width

Hi Jim,

To be able to drag the taskbar and make it narrower the way you like it, please unlock it first.

To do it, here are the steps:

• Right click on the Taskbar and unlock it by unchecking the
  Lock all taskbars option.
  
  
• Drag the edge of the bar and arrange it according to your preference.
• Right click on the task bar and lock it again once done.

Let us know if you need more help.

Regards.

 

Multiple columns in vertical taskbar?

I'm guessing the 'Pinned' Taskbar Icons stay in a single row because of the whole thumbnail preview thing.
Perhaps with a 3rd party utility...
Multiple rows are easily achieved creating a new Toolbar, (right click Taskbar/Toolbars/New toolbar...)
unlock the Taskbar and drag Toolbars to desired position by hovering of the double separator bars til you see a double headed arrow, (you can drag them over top of each other to flip their positions)...

 

Multiple columns in vertical taskbar?

Is there any chance/hack/possibility to have multiple columns when locating the taskbar on the side of the desktop?
I mean, when vertical, no matter how thick the taskbar is made, there is always only one icons column and one needs to scroll it, when those do not fit:



The only thing I found on the Net related to this is this topic:
taskbar doesn't stack when vertical? - Windows 7 Help Forums
But - first - I totally don't get this patent with a folder (?), and second - there are some years that passed, maybe, finally, there is a way to do this...? Or any taskbar tweaker, skin, whatever...?