@OldTreeCreeper That depends. On small monitors, running at the lowest resolution and video quality, smaller ui elements may look too fuzzy. On big, ultrawide monitors, you can get a larger view of World's Edge, but the UI elements on the sides are further away from the main focus area, so shrinking them would make them even harder to notice.
I'd like a minimalistic UI approach, but I also think the game would lose a bit of its identity this way. Right now it's hard to distinguish CoD HUD from Battlefield's from thumbnails, but you can easily identify Apex. I think this is important from a marketing point of view.