I suspect the ability to remove the new homepage will be enabled later. This forces us to use the Home page for now and hopefully find it useful. Evernote has a terrible track record in understanding what their users want and then keeping or developing these features.
My greatest frustrations over the last ten years have been software updates that take away functionality I use every day. Goodbye smooth workflow, hello reinventing the wheel.
The only reason I still use Evernote is that I have found that the competition is terrible at automatically storing scanned documents, which is a big part of my workflow.