Go to Personalization / Taskbar. Turn off the widgets icon. Hide the Search bar. Turn off the Chat icon.

Voila! Just Windows. Instead of cursing at the sky, I just turn off what I don't want.

MacOS is an old, outdated clown car of an OS that looks like it hasn't been updated in 15 years. Let me know when the Year of Linux happens.

Meanwhile, Windows is the most efficient, easy-to-use OS for development and media tasks. WSL is amazing. Hyper-V is fast if I need it. And it all Just Works.