I remember the days when the point of tech work was to eat the complexity on your side, so your users wouldn't have to. Alas, the dominant mindset today is that "dev time is expensive", while users' lives are free to waste.

I do not disagree with you, but having the news and weather forecast in the start menu is seemingly a more important feature then having a good search functionality, what can we do? And maybe that even makes sense, maybe we are just not the target audience that brings in the money, or maybe they really just make stupid decisions, that is hard to tell from the outside in an objective manner.