Microsoft has released guidance on how tenant and site administrators can enable and disable the new SharePoint document library experience for users. See this article:
Switch the default for document libraries from new or classic
Using this method, I was successfully able to alter the user's experience, but here is a caveat... When you alter the setting in the SharePoint Admin Center:
the effect is not immediately apparent. There is a delay between when you make the change (to either choice) before a user will notice. SharePoint Online must be going through programmatically and changing settings at a library level. For my test, I only have one site with one document library in it in the entire tenant, and it took between 30 and 60 minutes to update.
Also I noticed that Microsoft is calling this setting SharePoint Lists and Libraries Experience, even though the settings provided are only exposed for libraries, not lists. Is more change to come to our list views?
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- New SharePoint Document Library Experience (04/19/2016)
When you switch Between New and Classic SharePoint Document Library Experiences,It takes much longer than usual. It is never noticed easily.
Posted by: pamela | July 04, 2016 at 08:40 AM
great and informative article for all users.keep it up
Posted by: misigo | November 23, 2016 at 01:22 AM
Excellent article mate, surely help me clear why isn't Document Library stuff getting updated.
Why do you think this is happening?
Is it deliberate or Microsoft just didn't focus on this?
Posted by: Sumit Gupta | December 13, 2016 at 03:17 PM
well placed
Posted by: lisa | June 16, 2017 at 07:28 AM