Now it's just like the Apple experience!
Anyone who thinks otherwise, do go through a full install and then observe how many apps are installed that you cannot uninstall.
And it's true that you can't really uninstall things from Windows either... Xbox 360 Bar... it will be there forever. If you ever touch Windows Hello PIN logon, that will never be disabled again.
The only way to have an OS install be minimal is to choose a Linux, a distro will likely give you lots of things you may not want still (i.e. games, the office suite) but at least you can uninstall those all quickly.