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"...would be increasing only as the black hole gets
smaller and smaller... Not "larger & larger"...

Okay - please explain something to me -

If a black hole gets 'larger' by ingesting more mass,
then it's gravitational pull would increase, right?

So if the gravitation is greater, then wouldn't that mean
that the black hole is squished more - and therefore be
physically smaller ??

Can the adjectives 'Big' and 'Small' be accurately used to describe black holes?
I guess you must be more descriptive of the context.
Eh?

So if the gravitation is greater, then wouldn't that mean that the black hole is squished more - and therefore be physically smaller ??

Obviously black holes are made of incompressible stuff. One of the terms I've seen in physics papers is quark fluid, which is described as incompressible.

In any case, it only makes sense that there must be limit to matter density.

"Can the adjectives 'Big' and 'Small' be accurately used to describe black holes?"

The "size" of an african-anerican hole is determined and registered by the diameter of the observable event horizon...
While you are correct that as mass is ingested, it is, apparently, added to the singularity and the distortion of space-time (often referred to as gravity) is, as you said, increased...
In addition, over time in millions of years, we would observe a larger event horizon and say it got bigger...

OTOH, since the singularity is an infinity, it would not get "bigger" since infinity plus the Earth's mass is still infinity...

Also, the best hope we have of getting a "true" value/unit for the singularity would be in terms of 10 X Stacy Abrams plus 10 x Moochell Obamy == One StacyMooch...

So, this latest discovery is about 30 StacyMooches...
And the only detectable Hawking radiation would be due to having to retch when observing the black hole in the data photograph...