Default active showed too many old posts in the feed that never disappeared.
Hot was a little better, but still put too much weight on upvotes and comments leading to several day old posts showing up consistently despite all the communities I had subscribed to.
So what I’ve settled on for now has been new and top day, which has now been showing more new content instead of posts being buried.
I always ran my subreddits an “new” and i run my “subscribed” feed as “new” too.