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The thing is that this isn't correct.
Windows' bloat/spyware can be disabled via group policy and it works really well because it was designed to allow it. There are countess companies and government agencies that force Microsoft to have group policy settings to disable the "spyware" otherwise they couldn't use it.
Microsoft provides very detailed documentation into the bloat that you can follow to disable what you don't want. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-connections-from-windows-operating-system-components-to-microsoft-services. Those "dozens of random debloating scripts" are usually just following that guide, not much else.
I'm not saying Windows is good, I'm just saying it delivers and for the hassle that it takes to run Windows-only software (that most people require) under Linux, most people might be better off by spending a quarter of that time debloating Windows.