U+2042 "Asterism" (⁂) too dense to read at small sizes.

[Lunkli]

In Inter, the Unicode character U+2042, the asterism mark, is made up of three eight-pointed stars rather than the more typical six pointed stars. Because of this, when the character is printed at small sizes, rather than a proper set of three asterisks, it instead appears as a set of three mid-sized dots. This effect is even more pronounced when the character is bolded.

Because of both this and the fact that it does not stylistically match the standard asterisk, (U+002A) the character does not appear consistent with the rest of the font and is practically unusable, making it preferable for typographers to use the asterism of a different font in a piece that otherwise uses Inter.

[kenmcd]

It does seem a bit unusual compared to other interface fonts.
Given that the asterism is usually used at text sizes it is overly optically dense.
So I agree with you.

EDIT: the SF Pro in the above image is not SF Pro. The waterfall image below is correct. Not sure what I did there.

Most other fonts appear to copy the asterisk - and those are 5-6 points.
It is quite odd to have dense 8-point component.
Hopefully this can be addressed in a later version.