The ability to use a custom launcher to work around a stupid decision doesn’t make the decision less stupid. Not being able to customize something to easily customizable by default is a stupid decision. I strongly feel that applies to the search bar placement and the default search engine.

Unfortunately the stock launcher still runs anyway, because it provides things like the app switching UI.

So yea, you can switch but the other is still doing it’s thing.

On windows you could actually replace the shell, and Linux is even more flexible.