In Windows 11 file explorer navigation pane, how do I move Quick Access pins back to the top of the list?

My solution as posted earlier is to go with an alternative to File Explorer. There are several out there with a variety of display options.

I find this new navigation pane in Win 11 a complete pain, and in ways very inaccessible! Why can't personal be included with other main base folders, especially as I have chosen for files to be kept on the laptop too. So all important folders can have easy drop down menus... without having folders repeated in several sections.
The best view i've found has personal up top, but all other folder have to be places in library to have a drop down menu... which creates an extra folder in a folder... meaning you have to click drop down... which just shows you the same base folder... which you then have to click drop down again!! ...it's as if that part of windows is totally unfinished in development..

Something a lot of people don't realise, and I didn't for weeks... items in the personal folder ARE NOT on the laptop! They are auto deleted and immediately puffed up to ONLY be there floating in the cloud! So if cloud messes up, or you are somewhere where their isn't internet access ...you have no access to those files... people's all important docs and pix! So could even lost FOREVER, especially if people lose access to their account.

The other incredibly and massively dangerous thing of Win 11... this synch thing, it makes it seem you have to! You do... turn on old laptop... and BANG! The old laptop is as if part reformatted... even very important programs had been removed from my old laptop, many files too in some folders? this new Win 11 laptop like a virus just totally took over and changed everything. And what's most stupid about it... the old laptop is Win 10, and not even capable of having Win11... so why change and delete so much? It was more dangerous and damaging than ANY virus i've encountered. The only thing to do before activating a new laptop! Is create a new account for the old one, but no synching net data.
In some ways I love Win 11, and in others, i'm pretty horrified at how stupid and dangerous it is.

Agree 100% Stop mucking around with useless changes. Leave all options in place.

Since I also didn't care for the Windows 11 version of File Explorer, I started looking for alternatives and settled on One Commander. The UI looks fairly clean and the navigation pane allows for custom grouping and selective hiding of each group.

The only caveat to be aware of is opening pictures. The Windows Photos app only lets you navigate with the arrow keys on images opened with File Explorer. Luckily, there's quite a few photo manager alternatives. The one I've been using is IrfanView.

With any luck, some developer will take this into consideration for Windows 12 as I simply haven't been happy with Windows 11 overall.