The same can be said for Windows but instead of breaking with wonky updates, it breaks because of constant bloatware that creeps in to a computer to slow it down to the point of being unusable.

Everything has flaws so people have to adapt to those flaws or use something else. OP was complaining about the search bar being there, so since they don't like it, they should go somewhere else. If they're not going to do that, then adapt. Whining to a community that has a lot of Linux users is just asking for " just use Linux " comments.