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Stock launcher, taken directly from MIUI won't (requires MIUI framework). Try this one as an alternative.
As in just disable the app drawer? You can get a third party launcher like Nova and hide the button for the app drawer (though remember to enable adding icons to home screen on install) or if you want to go no app drawer at all, something like MIUI goes that route.
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Including MIUI options.
Oudated MIUI launcher might give you the recents screen?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.i.miui.launcher&hl=en
This is the one I know of.
There are a lot, here's one: MIUI launcher
Sorry I'm wrong. You can disable the app drawer with nova but you'd have to drag each app to the homescreen manually which sucks.
This is what you're looking for: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.i.miui.launcher
It's the MIUI launcher. No root or anything needed.