I'll taken your word for it, but if taskbar and start menu were controllable, I'm pretty sure after the third "I've deleted the internet/copilot/notes" support call I would be enforcing that the default taskbar items stay there.

Some companies might be resisting copilot, but many are going all in on it.

I'd love to think that, but my company is currently holding weeklong seminars to make sure that every employee is using Copilot and ChatGPT as much as possible.