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Let's cut the crap: it's not that they "realized" nobody wants it -- it's that they've come to accept the blowback against their reputation has gotten too big to outweigh the potential pros of preinstalled bloatware supporting their strategy.
I mean, every OS out there beyond (maybe?) some hardcore Linux distros preinstalls this stuff though. Some (but not all) will let you remove it. None really make it "easy" or give you choices during install.
I think it's just easier to treat all apps the same than special casing some and then having to install other hacks to get around the first ones for managed systems. It's cheaper to treat them all the same.
All Linux distros give you the choice of installing and uninstalling whatever you want.