Glad I am not the only one.
Brave (Old) is listed as a program on my computer but it boots the new edition.
I did a fair amount of reading today through their issues lists, etc. You can still launch the old one (for now, I imagine), but you’ll need to find the old exe to do so.
They have a lot of folks saying “oh chromium, great, make all of this stuff optional”.
They also broke “https everywhere” and a host of other little things. And whoever Mattche is in their blog/forum/thing needs to go.