O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want

I did notice that certain apps couldn't be removed due to being in use. I rebooted and was able to remove those apps. Also, AppBuster doesn't seem to run in Safe Mode as it hung while scanning for apps.

Fun fact: "Zune" was never scrubbed from some of the names of these apps, the Films & TV crapware was (is?) still called "zunemusic" when you removed it with Powershell.

Since my earlier days of using Windows, I have a strong impression that OS-tweaking tools are very much a double-edged sword. The advertised functions always look attractive, but maintaining a system with such tools has always been not as trivial as the authors were depicting it to be. Sometimes to the point that something would break immediately after tweaking a setting or using some sort of system 'cleaning' slash registry 'optimisation'. In my experience, the latter had always been breaking something. And the former wasn't ever a permanent solution. In other words, given the possible complications and maintenance implications, these tools felt borderline malicious.

But it's been years if not a decade since I last used something like that. How are the things with tools like the ones O&O offer these days? My impression is, 'Shutup' seems like it could very well break a thing or two. And that Buster thing seems... superfluous? I'd rather remove unwanted apps with tools at hand. And if that would involve some black magic, then maybe they shouldn't be removed at all? What's the use in fighting windmills just to remove some default media player?

Anyway, not looking to bash on the O&O software, but merely curious what experience people have with 'tweakers' these days.

PS: I was quite surprized to see a freaking CC-cleaner installed on some modern systems. What's up with that, too?