It looks like you have the taskbar set to use small icons and have labels being always displayed, but the label text isn't appearing for some reason, resulting in a blank space. The missing icons can also all be manually toggled off in settings, so not having them isn't horribly broken. My one concern is the lack of notifications, I don't think there's normally a way to completely get rid of them. Even when hidden, you still should see that little up symbol.
Maybe you somehow got caught halfway between settings? I'd go to the taskbar properties through right clicking, and System->Notifications & Action->"Select which items appear in the taskbar"/"Turn system icons on or off", and see if flipping all of those settings off and back on fixes anything.
You could also try restarting the Explorer process. In the task manager, go to "Windows Explorer" in the processes section, right click it, and choose Restart. That should reset your start menu and toolbar, if what you're seeing is your taskbar having slipped into an abnormal state.
If you're concerned about whether the Classic Shell process is causing this (I don't expect this to be the case, but weird interactions are inevitable when it comes to this sort of programming), you can try right clicking on the start icon and choosing exit, which will disable the replacement start menu (as well as the taskbar recoloring, if you chose to mess with that). To get it back without needing to restart, just run the classic start menu settings and it'll automatically bring the replacement menu back.
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