“this needs an advanced mode that hides all the useless banner images and text ”
I used Yoast at one time. It sounds as if the one of the main reasons I left is that the admin area is my workspace. I do not need it filled with their advertising and other “stuff”.
I also worried when pretty poor ratings for Yoast (after a time when it was full of coding experiments on its clients) seemed to change very rapidly.

The good thing about WP is that there are quality options, and SEO plugins in WP has some very good alternatives.

BTW, I just as an experiment. I did a google search for “Yoast WordPress”

The first result after the paid ads is from something they had in 2010

”
The #1 WordPress SEO plugin
Yoast ·
https://yoast.com › WordPress plugins
10 Oct 2010 — Yoast SEO is the #1 WordPress SEO plugin. It handles the technical optimization of your site & assists with optimizing your content.
”
I would want my SEO plugin, if I needed one, that is capable of getting & displaying better anchor text than something from 13 years ago.