You can hide the 'suggestions' at the top of this window.
As you edit more files you will see them appear as 'Recent' on this Home screen.
And in the General Preferences you have options for 'Home Screen' and 'New document interface'-
Regards. My System: Lightroom-Classic 14.0, Photoshop 26.0, ACR 17.0, Lightroom 8.0, Lr-iOS 9.0.1, Bridge 15.0.0, Windows-11.