The spaces between the elements in the standard element cards is getting worse and worse with each release of HA. It looks like 200% font size of space between elements which makes the dashboard even more unweildy than the lovelace dashboards are with everything moving to a random place as you try to align as best as you can.
I googled and searched other topics but they’re all very old, say you have to use a custom card or custom layout which doesn’t make any sense. With all of the customization you can there has to be a way to adjust the css for the element cards that are built-into HA.
This is just an disconnected auto-generated card for visual example.
I tried layout-card a while back. It does help with the layout a fractional amount but it doesn’t fix the element list problem and it doesn’t fix the … “oh you want these two panels to appear next to each other? no, just no.”