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>and at the point you're able to configure things in the registry or group policy or run scripts to disable huge portions of the OS just to get rid of one feature you hate: you might as well be using Linux.
As far as I'm aware Linux doesn't have nearly the same level of ease that Windows has in regards to configuration like that.
Linux very much expects you to do the thing you describe, as in, all of those at once in various ways. There isn't just a single XML file where you set the feature flags you don't want to 0, you'd have to spend a decent amount of time constructing a custom Linux distro to match your preferences. Seems very unstable on top of that, it's all just multiple 3rd party devs cooporating, there is no single authority that will demand compliance through iterations of the OS like MS does with their very high value of compatibility.