Why is the System Prefs dialog so **** big?

Not really a problem, rather just a nuisance. But the System Preferences dialog in Mavericks annoyed me from day 1. The icons are a lot bigger than they used to be and there seems to be no way of resizing. And the window gets even bigger once you install profiles (from OSX server profile manager) as the icon won't fit in the line with the others. With the rest of the interface being nice and neat that dialog is like a sledge hammer hitting me right between the eyes.
Any ideas for changing that (besides going back to ML)?

AFAIK, not doable. BTW, it looks the same size to me.

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