Changed Max Zoom out distance?

I started the game today for the first time in 3-4 days or so and I can't zoom out as far as before everything is much closer. I've looked at the patchlogs for the last week and can't find anything about it anywhere but it's definitely changed and my buddies noticed it also straight away.
Did something go wrong with one of the patches or is it intentional and just not mentioned anywhere in the patchlogs?
It's so unplayable for me whether running around the map normally or with the bosses that I now almost always have outside the screen to get even the slightest distance.

btw i play on PC if that matters.

I came here googling for "PoE2 patch zoom out" cause I noticed few hours ago a completely opposite effect to yours -- my game seems to zoom out more than before. I can't complain, I like it, but it's odd that something was done without any notice!

Unfortunately, we can only zoom in further.
I was a bit confused that i couldnt find anything about it here in the forum, as it doesnt just affect me, i would have expected someone to have already mentioned it here.
But the fact that its the other way around for others confuses me even more.

I'm experiencing the exact same situation. Everything was perfect when I played mid to late last week. I then traveled out of town on Friday not returning until late Sunday night during which I couldn't play. I jumped on again to play last night and immediately noticed that everything including all elements/menus of the GUI of PoE2 seemed zoomed in and I could not zoom back out. Maps are so zoomed in it is unplayable.

A few hours looking on line finding nothing and trying everything I could think of didn't help. Nothing on my end I'm aware of had changed while I was away and I am the only one with access to this PC (which was shutdown while away).

I did notice One thing...

If i quickly zoomed in and out multiple times it will suddenly and randomly appear that the zoom is good again. However, if I opened stash, a map... sorry waystone, never going to get use to that change... it will instantly snap back to being zoomed in again and won't zoom back out where it should be.

Just had a look at the patchlogs for the next patch and cant find anything that looks like a fix for the problem.
Its really confusing that not many people seem to have this problem or dont notice it or dont come here to report it i dont know.
I've played almost 140h in with no problems but since the problem has occurred practically none at all. It looks the same for my buddies.
So apparently the only hope is that it will somehow magically fix itself with the next patch just as it occurred.
We have tried checking files for errors and reinstalling and nothing has helped.

I've spent way more time than I want to admit on this and I've noticed something that may be related.

Setting the game to windowed mode and then changing the window size and aspect ratio of the window... the game auto rescales itself to match the new size/aspect ratio.

More of a wide screen aspect ratio for me results in more zoomed out and closer to where it use to be.

I also use a 43" 4K TV as a monitor but I'm starting to think after everything I've tested that there is a new bug in the window size auto scaling.

Also to note... resize the window to be in a widescreen aspect ratio and suddenly... the Centered UI option becomes no longer greyed out and you can enable it... P.S... centered UI simply adds a few inches of padding to the out sides of Life/Mana pools and only brings them slightly closer instead of near edges... kind of the looks like dog shit.