it's not just this tiny place though; their desire to force "stuff" everywhere - by default - widgets on the lock screen, things on the taskbar and system tray,

it's not just this tiny place though; their desire to force "stuff" everywhere - by default - widgets on the lock screen, things on the taskbar and system tray, useless apps you cannot uninstall, repeated nagging to change default apps for specific documents to the lame MS ones (Q: has anyone ever done this after changing it to their desired application?), having to opt-out and try and turn off things that add no value for the user... I've used windows my entire professional life and when my current win10 system (which easily runs triple-A games and deep development) is EOL'd because it "can't run windows 11" I think I hold my nose and switch to a Mac.