At this point there’s no way to disable this view which features algorithmily selected posts from subreddits your not currently subscribed to. You have to manually switch to “Following” every time you visit the homepage to see normal view of posts from subscribed subreddits.
I don’t disagree, the trouble is that R is still highly useful to me, and the things you mention can either be worked around or aren’t too much of a hassle.
By contrast, being forced to browse the site in “New” mode would indeed be a terminal enshittification.