Tab groups expanded by default in Safari

This is the dumbest, UNCONTROLLABLE update I’ve ever seen. Why do I need my sidebar expanded with all the tabs in a group when THEY ARE AT THE TOP OF THE BROWSER!!?? Apple design has really fallen off the last few years. There is literally no setting to keep the tab groups from auto expanding. Apple needs to fix this ASAP, but alas, they wont. Chrome actually has a cool feature where their tab groups are at the top, and you click on the group to expand all the tabs in that group. Given Safari’s recent issues I’ve been having with it not wanting to fill fields or highlight words (you double click on it and it highlights but in grey, you have to unhighlight the word then click again for it to be blue), I’m going back to chrome. I gave it my best Safari, but bye bye.

This has also been driving me nuts the last few days. I thought I was going crazy since it never used to do that, and I don't remember updating anything, but I guess I'm glad to know that it happened to everyone and I'm not crazy...

I use this for work everyday to keep all the tabs for different projects separated and I am constantly switching between groups and it's extremely annoying that the tab groups keep popping open. If it doesn't get fixed soon I may have to find another browser or an extension that does it better.

Thought this was a bug, i heavily rely on tab groups instead of bookmarks and have some with hundreds of tabs. The default "show tabs in sidebar" is deeply annoying an frustrating behaviour.

Please Apple revert this or add an option / toggle if necessary.

Im using 6 Apple devices (including 2 iPhones, iPad and Mac), 3 laptops with Windows and one phone with Android. Chrome could be my natural choice as it is supporting all those platforms. I still stayed with Safari because tabs management there WERE much better. Very intuitive, fast and simple. Now it works similar as Chrome with extension "Vertical Tabs" (annoying auto expansion of each tab group after click). I would still prefer simplicity of old tab groups in Safari and hope that Apple will fix that. Otherwise why should't I switch to multi platform solution which offers exactly the same? BTW I hope this change was not intentional as Safari tabs on iPad iOS works still same so without auto expansion.

Make it much less useful. I will drag urls to my different tab-groups and now I have to scroll and scroll.

Please stop this from expanding.

Yup, just updated today, and this issue is stopping me to use the tab groups.

Please fix this Apple, it was so easy to keep tabs clean and organized before and now its a mess