Try a third party launcher. I believe Nova and Go launcher both allow you to hide certain apps.
In order to install a rom, you'll have to have a custom recovery and that isn't available for GS5... Yet. Plus I don't think you can go back to jelly bean once you are on Kitkat. It has to do with the bootloader being incompatible, I think.
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