Can you replace the edge executable with a symlink or a copy of your preferred browser ? A common trick we used to use back in the day was to rename the micros

Can you replace the edge executable with a symlink or a copy of your preferred browser ? A common trick we used to use back in the day was to rename the microsoft executables that we didn't want to start automatically, it silently failed and everything was fine until next batch of updates which detected this and fixed it.