You're conflating two different issues; Windows 11's broken/anti-competitive default browser changing UI has been improved (although annoying popups remain), bu

You're conflating two different issues; Windows 11's broken/anti-competitive default browser changing UI has been improved (although annoying popups remain), but those defaults are only used by non-Microsoft software. Microsoft's other software uses "microsoft-edge://" links which simply ignore the user's default browser choice and open in Edge. When a workaround was found to fix this (i.e. to obey the user's choice), Microsoft blocked it. Plus Microsoft rushed out this Edge-link workaround patch to retail, while sitting on the default browser UI improvements until next year.