How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?

Microsoft, we need the "Never combine taskbar buttons" option returned! Our company recently updated to Windows 11 after waiting almost a year and grouped taskbar buttons in highly inefficient. Instead of an instant single click I now have to hover over the group, scan the group, determine which instance is needed, and select it. Although additional time is minimal, the additional mental energy is infuriating. Previously with ungrouped icons the customer experience was automatic and instantaneous. Now it requires mental effort every time I need to simply go to a different instance of the program. Needless. Pointless. Please put the power to combine taskbar buttons back into the hands of the user. Thank you!

I don't understand what Microsoft did here. OK, so you want a clean look in Windows 11 and you think that newbie users are going to like just having a button and not being able to see the name of the app. I disagree, but ok.

BUT WHY TAKE AWAY THE OPTION TO CHANGE IT? Leave the option in. It doesn't hurt Microsoft to have the option there, and you just annoyed hundreds of millions of power users. How did you think this was a good choice? If I wanted a Mac, I'd buy a Mac. Put the option back, please.

Does anyone from Microsoft read these feedback forums?
This is the most liked topic on here. When can we expect at least a reply from someone who works there?

Every time I get a new computer the FIRST thing I do is to change from the utterly unproductive useless "Combine" mode of the taskbar to the WONDERFUL very productive "uncombine" mode. The uncombine mode allows for MUCH better workflow. As you may have guessed, this is a new computer and I am very frustrated that I cannot easily uncombine the taskbar icons. PLEASE FIX THIS NOW! I don't want to have to install a third-party program just because someone at Microsoft thinks a "cleaner look" is more important than a productive, easy-to-multitask Taskbar. Whoever thought this was a good idea should lose their job, because it is NOT a good idea. One of the main reasons I have stuck with PCs instead of Apple is the freedom to alter programs so they are more user-friendly. Not having the ability to "never combine taskbar buttons" is the same intolerable paternalistic attitude toward software that keeps me away from Apple. If you are going to take up the infuriating paternalistic attitude of apple (which I despise) then I may as well get rid of my PCs and use the better-engineered Apple laptops.

I subscribe to this. The combine option ruined my productivity.

The lack of customisability of the taskbar is truly a shame.
Would have thought microsoft would have learned from win8 debacle. Tablets, phones and PCs are fundamentally different devices and trying to shoehorn interfaces without opening up the ability to customise things where they don't belong just doesn't work.
Why can't I:
1: change the size of my taskbar tiles?
2: ungroup taskbar tiles?
3: change the look of taskbar tiles so they look like win10 application "bars"

I was hoping to get the setting back with the update... but no luck...