Google Android phones do so freaking much of this too. Open the Google app (or swipe left from the home screen on the Pixel Launcher), gone are the days where it's a copy of their original homepage and is just a search bar, now it has news... Go to the search bar, and it shows trending searches. Die in a tucking fire!

You can definitely disable the "swipe left" thing on the launcher.

Yea, but you can't make it a home screen like when you swipe right.

You can turn that off, it’s the first thing I do on Windows. I agree you shouldn’t have to though.

Yeah I just wanted to check the weather...