STOP THE MADNESS! Make the Properties Panel STOP popping up! [2020]

Guess how many times I dismiss the properties panel in an average work day? It doesn't matter. The point is that once I've explicitly dismissed it - the panel it needs to stop reappearing. It's just as annoying as the pixel width and height box that appears anchored to a transformation box when you're trying to resize an image over a template. No, I take that back... the Properties Panel is MORE annoying because it insists on floating its boxy little body over my precious screen real estate and doesn't go away by itself. You have to tell it over and over. I would almost prefer putting a big piece of duct tape over that portion of the screen and convincing myselt that it's broken there instead of constantly having to dismiss that demon box from... Window. Not intuitive. At. All.

Any solutions or medication suggestions are welcome.

Thaank you.