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Since Windows 8 was released over 10 years ago, there's a repeated pattern where em-dollar sign introduces a bunch of bullshit that nobody fucking wants and a bunch of plucky Windows power users^TM^ design third-party tools to either get around or attempt to get rid of the bullshit that em-dollar sign wants to push. We can see this in Windows 8 when em-dollar sign got rid of the start menu and some Russian dude came up with classic shell (well technically he came up with it before Windows 8 was released, but the general point still stands). Em-dollar sign would eventually put back the start menu (with an inferior design with what they had in 2000, XP, Vista, or 7), but I haven't seen anything else where em-dollar sign faced enough backlash to get rid of some bullshit nobody asked for. This is a cat-and-mouse game where em-dollar sign will constantly enshittify their already shitty OS even more while those plucky Windows power users^TM^ expend more and more effort to essentially polish a turd.
All these debloater Powershell scripts, registry edits, third-party tools, Windows update stoppers are just workarounds. We all know what the actual solution is.