@quad
You can remove new Edge using winget. They did break it with one of the updates, but I think it works again now.

@m0xee No they claimed it was a "system component" and wouldn't let you remove it for a few years.

The only reason they reversed it and removing edge is now possible because it was necessary to comply in the EU: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-strip-bing-edge-other-microsoft-cruft-from-windows-11/

@m0xee I forget when they made edge "impossible" to remove. I think it was around 2020.

But the reason it was recently reversed is due to this:

@quad
That's odd, for me the winget way always worked — it's not very obvious, but nonetheless. It stopped working with one of the updates last autumn, but it looked more like a bug than something done intentionally. The next update that restored it, the winget way started working again both for Edge itself and for WebView2 — which I don't want in my system either.
It could be related with that court ruling of course, but I did not look so 🤔