This is insane indeed, on my work laptop I'm forced into Windows, what a mess! (Oh the glory of my clean KDE 5.27 on EndeavorOS at home, what a contrast, such beauty, such wobbly windows, such snappy tiling.)
At some point I saw something about the Kardashians from my taskbar! Wtf, I though that with all this analytics Windows would at least show me something about Cardasians.
I mean MS365 is nice, VSCode is nice, GitHub is nice... I gladly pay for all of it (not VSCode atm of course). But I really prefer them all from my clean KDE (or sometimes Gnome) environment. It's like Windows is the cheap part of the ecosystem, if you want to go full premium you replace that part of the chain with something else.