Indeed - "Shift" legends have been updated to decrease the length of the arms on the 'f' and 't' characters, as well as to minimize spacing between those characters.
Full announcement for reference
HoffmanMysterThank you for this, I had somehow missed it.
A community member
Sep 26, 2022
They said somewhere in the announcement for this that the Shift molds will be fixed beginning with this set's production. (But the renders here still show the gap.)