Yeah and every file type opening in edge for some reason? Annoying.

On my old computer whenever I would launch my computer, the desktop icons would be randomly strewn around the desktop. I had to get a utility app that I would run manually every time my computer started in order to fix it.

Correct

I don’t think this is walled-garden behaviour. No one’s stopping you from just using the same user info for every server you join, with no consequences to doing so. You don’t need an email and data doesn’t sync anyways, so there is no need.