@Kevin_Harris The so-called “compact” mode is going to need to be entirely re-imagined, not just incrementally changed with “further adjustments”. I have provided some initial suggestions here.
The underlying problem with the current “compact” mode (and with the entire redesign, IMO) is that it seems to have been guided by a directive that the UI for every client app (even the non-mobile clients) must be usable on a touch-screen — this seems to be the only explanation for why the padding and margins are so expansive, and the buttons so big. Although it is nice to have some commonality in the UI appearance across mobile and non-mobile clients, IMO making the non-mobile clients (browser extension, Desktop app, Web Vault) look like the mobile apps creates too many usability problems for the former to be worth the benefits of having a 100% uniform UI.
Edited to Add:
A “compact” mode that truly serves its purpose (in the browser extension) is unlikely to be very usable on a phone screen, so the “compact” mode should not even be an available option in the mobile apps (unless Bitwarden wishes to develop and maintain a separate pseudo-compact mode for the mobile apps)…
Also, in addition to my own proposals for the compact mode, there are some interesting concepts in this feature request from @Nematode: