I'm more accustomed to Google's software. And I don't recall ever having to follow elaborate tutorials to uninstall/stop notifications for shit I don't want, like I do with every Samsung phone.

Being accustomed to one over another is fine, but there is no objective reason one would prefer google's calculator over samsungs one, or calendar or whatever.

I have google's apps included on literally every android phone out there - why do we pretend like somehow it's the samsung that is the only one forcing bloat on people?

The objective reason, as I mentioned, is user control. Samsung makes it too difficult to uproot their apps. Never had anything close to that problem with my many Google phones.

You can't fully remove google apps either, not to mention GMS itself