This is becoming a problem for a lot of programs now - photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, all with this giant ai prompting window.

I know adobe is desperate for us to use it but please can we at least hide it when we know we wont?

The Illustrator home page is slowing down workflow due to the poorly positioned AI generation box. It takes up way too much space and we have to scroll down now to see our recent files. Give us the option to remove/hide it - I for one never use it so it's just in the way. The featured row is not so bad on its own as it doesn't use as much height (tbh I'd prefer being able to hide that too though). Once you have the AI box dumped above it, the recent files grid is pushed down so far as to be almost totally hidden until you scroll down.

I would love to not have to scroll past Generation tools into order to get to my recent work. If we can please make the generation box and the "Featured" sections hideable, that'd really help with workflow for me. I just want to get my job done, not play with Firefly and AI tools when I'm trying to get paid. Thanks.

There needs to either be an option to turn off the aggressive, disruptive, and workflow-prohibitive "Featured" and "Generate" panels on the Home Screen forcing users to scroll down to access recent files every time a user returns to the Home Screen.
This is a massive software engineering/UX/UI oversight and already thousands of users are demanding this be remedied.
Add me to those standing to be counted — this needs to be addressed in the very next update or patch. See screenshot for direct reference.

A more general request:
An ability to disable all generative tools and options, like Text to Vector Graphic, Generative Pattern...
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47462738

Please allow disabling the AIGenerative and "Featured" areas from Illustrator's home page, they are both distractions and take up too much space

Seconded. I booted up illustrator this morning to see this staring me in the face of my home screen and It's simply in the way and unable to be turned off. C'mon adobe. If generative ai is "the future" why are you trying so hard to force me to look at it. Please just let me toggle it off.

I use the recent file display on the Illustrator home screen regularly at work. There is AI stuff I am never going to use screaming at me as soon as I open the app and disrupting workflow now. There isn't any reason for it to be so large. I'm sure I'm not the only one having to dig around to get to my latest project now.