How to not display subcategories in Recent Posts widget area?

You need to pass more query arguments. In this case you need:

    $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => $instance['limit'],
        'category__in'   => $id
    );

Where $id is the category id, not the post id.

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