Maybe it’s not so important to you that you’d spend the extra money.
Don't pretend that Apple and quality of computing go hand in hand. They only do if you buy into their mindset wholesale, warts and all.
In fact, I'm surprised I didn't do this earlier.
The bloatware isn't even a blip on the radar for these companies. Everything is about gaining as much control as possible over everything. MS wants to make everything Office related web based so we have no control over our own documents and communication. Apple wants us to use iCloud for our photos and the app store for apps we need so we become dependent. Google dominates with Chromium because they don't want you to access the internet unless you're doing it the way they want.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft would be split into 20 companies each if regulations were working properly.
When you get a iphone, their privacy policy is right there at the beginning, thousands of pages long. "Privacy is a right!" But they still snoop on every little thing you do in their own way. And they have no buttons. Definitely do not have a "Reject All" button. sigh.
Subscription software is my hill to die on.
Open Office, Linux and various other Open tools are becoming a big .