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Then - when you uninstall their short-lived app - Windows doesn’t automatically fall back to the app that handled that format before they foisted theirs upon you.
Even better, Microsoft has introduced a user choice ‘protection’ driver that prevents non Microsoft applications from changing default file association, forcing you to use the settings.
Last I installed Adobe Acrobat, it launched this submenu and drew an overlay arrow on where to click. It was bizarre.
Yes, it’s crazy. I’m a MSP and have to jump through so many hoops to make sure it is default and not edge.
“I run Windows and it acts like Windows!”
Basically malware imo
none of microsoft’s junk can be permanently uninstalled, so it should all count as malware