I don’t have any of the Plex offerings displayed on my Home screen. I don’t mind them, they just don’t fit my needs - you can turn them all off.
I then use automatic home and pinned the sources I wanted in the order I wanted (depending on client) and then used the Manage Recommendations library options to display what I wanted for those pinned sources (libraries).
I used info here to setup what shows up on home\library screens: Manage Recommendations | Plex Support
I also am testing out using Smart Collections (which can be added to Library Recommendation screens in Home or Library view) to make some of the options a little more personal like an “Unwatched Recently Released” row for movies so stuff we watch drops off in place of the built in Recently Released row. Info at the above link for how to setup a Collection as a row and here’s how to setup Smart Collections: Collections | Plex Support
There’s a bug with Smart Collections and user’s content at the moment (it reports MY watch history not THEIR watch history in some areas) but that’s likely getting worked out.
There’s definitely folks who are frustrated (there’s a 1000+ thread around mostly of complaints and frustrations being vented) but there are functions to address most folks needs with the changed features. Plex hasn’t been great with publicizing\announcing those feature or functionality changes to the general user base as well as they could (but evidently they are aware and working to address it) … but definitely worth digging into some of the newer feature setup. If you have some specific library setup you’d like to detail out I know a few folks in these forums have had experience swapping settings around a bit to fit older needs with the newer features.
