If you don’t want the AI features don’t use them
I do want a good file system embedding plugin for semantic search, image categorization and content recognition, better OCR, etc. I can run all those locally for less energy than playing a video game and wasting zero water, but a good OS integration would be game changer.
There are definitely things to say against AI, but the anti-AI crowd can sometimes be incredibly short sighted and assholishly militant.