Windows 10: Will Windows 11 ever let us remove these annoying news panels in the widgets?

When I click on widgets, I get so damn pissed when I see all these news articles in my face. I don't care about them. I care about what I'm looking for. when will they fix this or is there a fix?

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Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

not looking to deny the Widget panel from working, just to make it actually useful to me.

i've already removed this useless OS "upgrade" that is Windows 11 and gone back to the much more useful Windows 10.

if something improves further down the road of development with 11 that makes the Widget panel and the dumbed-down Start 'panel' more useful i will consider using it again, but for now it is just a terrible GUI compared to Windows 10 for my uses.

 

Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

When hovering over or clicking on the Widgets shortcut the panel appears with ~50 of these stupid little windows all showing news feeds.

I don't mind the weather and a very few other widgets that show something useful but all of these news panels are pointless, annoying, and really leaning me more towards going back to Windows 10 where I can have real Live Tiles again without this excess junk.

How can we really customize this panel and remove all these unwanted news panels?

I have closed them with the upper-right 'X' which leaves them blank until the next time the panel opens.

I have chosen to 'Hide stories' from at least 100 different news agencies, but they continue to appear.

I have gone through the MS account 'personalize your interests' option to remove all possible genres of news.

Nothing removes the amount of windows shown or the genre of news that they continue to show.

I don't want to change what these little windows show, I want to delete the majority of the windows altogether so that only 4 or 5 at the most are there.

And why are these limited to these news feed type windows; weather, stocks, etc?

Why can't we create custom application shortcut widgets like in old Windows 7 & 8.1 add-ons with advanced options?

 

Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

So, if I get this right..

To prevent the annoying news widgets from showing up the solution is to uninstall them altogether?!

And uninstalling is better dan hiding them, because widgets that aren't being used will still be using resources?

Think I might follow GObonzo's advice and go back to windows 10 indeed.