New UI/font scaling behavior is awful

I use discord at 80% scaling because I use it on a secondary monitor, and I prefer to reduce the size of the sidebars to make more room for the primary text content. Before, this wasn't an issue, and I never thought about it. Now, coinciding with the font change to gg sans, it seems like something has changed with the way the font is rendered at smaller sizes. I've read that instead of just scaling the font normally, Discord now stretches the font vertically taller and condenses it. I don't know what the rationale for this is, but it looks awful and makes the text much more difficult to read. Even if there are no plans to let us revert to the previous font, please at least change the UI scaling to the way it used to be. It's seriously inhibiting my ability to use Discord on desktop.