Column Gaps and spacing appear broken
It has been reported by some users, that after updating to Elementor 3, they saw that their column gaps and section paddings were not working properly. This is because of recent CSS Selector changes in Elementor 3, regarding the DOM output.
You can read more about it here.You can easily fix this if you go to Elementor \ Settings \ Advanced and enable the optimised DOM output.
Your layout spacing should be back to normal.