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It's really obtrusive. It takes up too much space, perhaps only by 2 pixels on each side or so, but it's too much, the contrast is too large, the outline is too heavy, and the a m o u n t o f w h i t e s p a c e is plain annoying.

Why do they persist in these ugly design shenanigans?

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I don't find it that obtrusive and it's likely it would have taken me a while to notice it if it wasn't pointed out in this version and in 76 threads.

When I click it I also get the address bar drop-down with other common addresses in it, which is many many times larger than the small expansion of the address bar - unless I am missing the gripe here.

I don't know why it was needed to expand like that, but it certainly doesn't seem like an egregious use of space to me.

I suspect a lot of this is about making it easier to use with touch input. Which doesn't mean I like it, but I can understand why they're doing it.

How does this benefit touch input? It expands after clicking—the tap target hasn't changed.

I was mostly thinking about the amount of whitespace between list items. Makes it easier to hit the right one.

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