...at least temporarily.
I upgraded to Chromium 123, and I got to experience the new UI that so many people are complaining about. Yes, it is rather awful.
To revert back to the older UI, disable the following flags in chrome://flags:
I should probably spend some time researching alternative web browsers. Firefox is not much better, as Mozilla has also made some rather ill-advised decisions that pushed people away from their browser over the years. Why is the modern web so awful...
Comment on a GitHub issues thread describing flags to disable