It is a different experience to hug and hold a man who is only slightly taller than me (I have never been with anybody shorter than me) and a man who is much taller than me. Neither is better than the other - they are different.

I bet with friendships it is the same - people are different, and it is OK.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are probably the most famous pair of male buddies, one of them tall and the other short.

If Miguel de Cervantes wrote it this way, he must have had good reasons to write it this way. So fear not and try to explore what else might explain the dynamic at work.