[Atlas26]

Basic internet and computer hygiene makes it incredibly easy, even inherent, in avoidng spyware/adware/malware and crappy software. Now some people who don’t do that might find nuking it all to be easier than trying to uninstall everything, that’s valid, but Unless you corrupted something on a system wide scale, clean installs are a relic from when they were a blanket solution way back in the day when all software was a lot more unstable, many years ago. I’ve been running the same install of Windows, upgraded numerous times, with nary and issue nowadays just thanks the the above best practices. Same with MacOS.

This tends to be the general sentiment in both communities (outside of people who recommend that cause it’s all they know, but I wouldn’t listen to them regardless) if you keep good computer/internet hygiene practices and barring any widespread corruption/systemic malware/other external factors.

Aside from that, I’m always a huge advocate for the polished UX. As long as the options aren’t removed, the users who need them will be able to use them perfectly fine, everyone else won’t be offput by them, especially when the need for clean installs is only necessary for specific use cases as I mentioned before and doesn’t come up often at all.