I really hate the TouchBar and never use it.
It often happens that I try to hit a key in the top row and accidentally touch the TouchBar (ha!), where all open files are displayed, and jump to one of the files.
Is it possible to disable displaying currently opened files in the TouchBar?
The below setting defaults to being turned on, so disabling it in your user preferences should do what you want.
// Mac only: Show recent files on the Touch Bar.
"show_navigation_bar": true,
You can also configure the touch bar in macOS settings, to never have application specific shortcuts there, or to always show function keys, etc.