Yes, this is horrible UX design and there's absolutely no need for such inflated amounts of padding around everything.<p>Huge companies are the absolute worst offenders for crap like this. Seriously, have you ever tried using Facebook to manage business pages? It is unbelievably poor.<p>Google is by far the most hypocritical, however, because their search engine ranks pages lower for UX sins like "cumulative layout shift" while at the same time committing those sins themselves.<p>(Having said all that, I would not personally expect an online spreadsheet app to look great on "half a 13" screen" on first load.)