For some reason, my menu bar became taller (vertically), exceeding the size of the notch on my 16" MBP. I was not able to find any options to bring it back to normal.
Yup, I did. It’s on default as it always was. In any case, I’m noticing screen captures of other’s menu bars and they’re the same heights as mine. For some reason, I thought it was shorter vertically.