Order of icons in bottom bar

With the recent update for iPhone, the bottom bar has changed. Now (at least in portrait mode), the bottom bar only has the home, libraries, search, and audio icons, then you have to clock the three dot menu to see windows and bookmarks, then click windows to change windows. This seems like a very non user friendly change, as I think a lot of users are frequently switching between windows. Is there a setting where a user can choose the order of the icons in the bottom bar?

I should note that in landscape mode, all the icons appear and are in a different order.

I have the same issue since the new iPhone update. It is really hard to get to my other windows when teaching a class. It takes a lot of clicks and thinking when switching screens especially in the middle of lessons. In iPhone, if you go to settings, accessibility, display & text size, larger text, and with the larger accessibility text on you can make it smaller. Then the menu has the screens icon. Problem with that solution is that I can’t see the rest of the words because it is too small for my eyes to read. If we could reorder the icons or if the text could enlarge but not the menu it would fix the issue.

Yes, this is so annoying! Why would they do this to us in torture us in this way? who's bright idea was this??