"but why is the window starting maximised a problem? surely u want the window to fill the screen?"
true, but automatically maximised windows don't tend to behave themselves in a tiled window manager (in my experience at least). in this case, the window accounts for the size of the taskbar, but then centres itself vertically, covering half of it - hence the workaround
@lizardsquid god ikr, it's especially infuriating in this case cos the whole reason it starts maximised is due to someone requesting a "maximise on startup" feature 3 years ago and the dev response was to just hard code it so it starts up maximised every time instead
@PolyCement noooooo
agkshgjskhgj that's awful