I think you’re conflating “tinkering” with simply desiring a different feature set. In my case I actually want “less” from Google in terms of number of features

I think you’re conflating “tinkering” with simply desiring a different feature set. In my case I actually want “less” from Google in terms of number of features. I don’t want to tinker either, but we naturally reach for toggles as a way to tell the system we want different (not necessarily more) features. Most of my search results at this point look like a spam ridden inbox from the mid-2000s.