How to STOP Teams from auto-deciding for me what I should see and not see

I couldn't agree more. I have many dozens, if not hundreds, of channels that I should be monitoring on a regular basis. It has been an absolute disaster for me. I've basically given up on Teams at this point since it's no longer a productivity tool that can be relied upon. I've pretty much given up on using any software tools to maintain productivity because they keep changing. As soon as you figure out how to use the thing and get your team to rely on it, it completely changes. This topic doesn't even get into all the other changes they've been making that have broekn productivity norms.  

These companies think they can use some sort of algorithm to do the thinking for us but it more often robs us of predicability and productivity. I spend more time searching for things when we should be able to simply know were things are to find them.  

Instead of walking into a room, opening the A-D filing cabinet and then the 'Brooks, Mel - Drawings' folder, I have to figure out what floor the filing room is on, then walk into it and ask to give me the Brooks drawings and hope it knows which Brooks I mean and which drawings I need. It takes SO. MUCH. LONGER. 

Actually, this is the exact same issue I'm having on the new MacOS update. They got rid of the LaunchPad app which allowed you to organize app icons in a manner that made sense to your workflow and replaced it with a less efficient search command.  

They're all trying to hide the software and do this thinking for us and it's making it harder to use computers - because they're trying to move in a direction where the computer no longer exists and an ether-intelligence does all the thinking for us. See: Microsoft Copilot / office.com