I just re-installed recently for gaming partition. Some of the things I need to disable are annoying, but yes they're still fine.

> fighting against the annoyances

Because they're trivial annoyances. I spend just as much time disabling or changing annoying things on KDE (or MacOS), I don't see the difference other than "Microsoft bad!" At the end of the day the same amount of my time is wasted. I'll save my moral outrage for actually important things.