Solution has been given in this thread, and it works, you need to disable the feature completely until it is patched, apparently it is buggy for some because once shrunken you cannot restore it back to fullscreen - at least I can’t and others.
I agree having a small text block like during “skip intro” would be preferred, they can even put a small thumbnail of the next episode to start playing that like netflix does. But turning the active video into a thumbnail sucks. Especially so if there’s post credits content - like next episode previews.