Can the old UI come back in the next versions?

It is (or was?) possible to change the design of the Editor to some extent via your own custom USS files (as explained here by a former staff). This only worked on/for IMGUI elements, however.

Even if the Editor was fully based on UI Toolkit, I doubt that we would ever see official support for such kind of customisation. IIRC, I was inquiring to… I think SimonDufour or uDamian… years ago about if it was possible to edit the Editor’s own UI Toolkit-based elements via custom USS and bottom line was: They’re hard coded and also it’s not something Unity wants to see us doing.