Audio waveform hard to read since 24.5 update (not colours)

Since updating from 24.3 to 24.5 the audio waveform is much harder to read. I have changed to the 'classic' colours and understand the audio colour can be changed to a darker colour to invert the waveform back closer to how it was before this update.
However, what is going on with the waveform scale, alignment and white space? Comparing the waveforms above, which are of the exact same audio, the 24.5 version on the right looks really small and squashed with the left and right audio not having equal height, and there seems to be empty space at the top of the waveform now.
I would really struggle to edit with the new waveform design as I can barely make anything out. It is even worse if I untick 'Logarithmic Waveform Scaling'. Surely this must be a bug, as I can not imagine this is the intended design.
Is anyone else seeing this issue with the new waveform design? And to reiterate, I am not talking about the colours.

