NYT has dove so deep into identity politics, opinion, agenda, and editorial that it's very hard to imagine their actual legitimate journalistic/reporting division is not being negatively impacted and influenced.
Opinion and editorial are explicitly not part of the newsroom and are published in a different section under a different heading. You may have some problems with the people they hire as opinion commentators but hiring opinionated commentators is absolutely part of the job of a good newspaper. Lefty types regularly make fun of NYT's conservative and centrist commentators, so it's not like they're loved by the left either.
For instance, I detest many of the WSJ's editorial stances but freely admit that they do some very good journalism, which I admire.
The NYT is not unblemished - cough cough the Iraq War cough cough Judith Miller cough, ahem.
Do you have some examples of this?
On Bret Stephens: https://splinternews.com/by-all-means-tell-me-more-milk-boy-...
On Bari Weiss: https://splinternews.com/the-new-york-times-is-shipping-bari...
On Thomas Friedman: https://splinternews.com/thomas-friedman-goes-full-fascist-a...
On Ross Douthat: https://splinternews.com/nyt-columnist-who-wanted-to-ban-por...
On Liz Mair: https://splinternews.com/new-york-times-allows-seattle-born-...
Everything tagged with "New York Times": https://splinternews.com/tag/new-york-times