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Fun fact: the average House of Delegates standing committee in Annapolis has 23 members out of a 140-(eligible) member body. All of the new Baltimore City Council members have 7 members out of 14 eligible members. Those ratios aren't even close: https://www.wypr.org/post/mosby-halves-committee-structure-terms-first-council-meeting
Also the Scott-era City Council only had three different three-member committees out of 12 total. By contrast, it had four different seven-member committees, one six-member committee, and four five-member committees.
Important stuff like transportation, housing, labor, land use, and...Judiciary.
Also the Maryland House of Delegates itself has seven different standing committees and the State Senate has talked of adding a fifth standing committee because it turns out that having larger committees instead of larger amounts isn't great for workload: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/02/07/crush-of-bills-must-be-managed-lawmakers-say/
Though frankly trying to apply a structure designed for a part-time body which typically only meets for 90 days is also not the best idea for a year-round body (albeit one with occasional holiday breaks) which has been moving AWAY from being part-time over the past four years.
Also the amount of districts represented by a committee chair just shrank from 8 to 6 despite this term being MORE incumbent-heavy (though the amount of freshman chairs also shrank from 8 to 1, despite 4 freshmen being elected). And that's counting Rules & Legislative Oversight.
