Hiding it usually works.

Unfortunately on Windows there's this annoying slide-out animation that slows you down. It happens even if you disable UI animation.

On top of that sometimes the bar doesn't show up at all when specific windows are maximized. Which means you need to press the start button to get it out.

At some point one figures "f this shit, just toggle off auto-hide".

I do autohide in macOS on laptops tho.

A lot get frustrated with the slide but if you disable animations the autohide becomes instant too.

For what it's worth, you don't need to disable all animations to stop this, just the menu ones.

https://superuser.com/a/1644831

That's actually a fantastic tip, thanks!