Reported from the device with a screenshot: six items took up most of a phone screen. The rows measured ~57dp apart, which is Material's TextField content padding almost exactly — 16dp above the text, 16dp below, around a 24dp line. That padding is right for a form field, where it is the difference between a comfortable target and a fiddly one. On a checklist it IS the row height, so every item was paying for a hit area the checkbox beside it already provides. The editor's blocks drop to BasicTextField. Nothing about the "no box" treatment is lost — PlainTextField exists to strip a container and an indicator, and BasicTextField never had either, so there is nothing here to drift back into existence. What it does not supply and BlockField now does: the text colour, which defaults to Color.Unspecified and draws BLACK (the same default that made the toolbar invisible in dark mode), the cursor brush for the same reason, and the placeholder, which becomes a plain Text behind the field. PlainTextField keeps serving the search box, the label picker and the sync-pairing form — fields where Material's padding is what you want. Its TextFieldValue overload went with the change: the editor was its only caller, and every remaining one passes a String. Rows are now bound by the 48dp checkbox rather than by the field. If that is still looser than it should be, the next lever is the touch targets themselves, which trades against how easy the box is to hit — worth looking at on a device before spending it.