It boggles the mind that you have to install an extension to get that simple basic feature that was present in all browsers before.
Also, for some reason, I setup a new machine today, with latest Win10 updates and the only section I have on that setting page is _New tab page_
The other two, _When Microsoft Edge starts_ and _Home button_ are not even there...
On the customize page you show, I don't even have a setting to turn off the bing search, quicklinks, etc.
This is where you customize new tab
https://imgur.com/a/Jzpq7Rs
This gives empty page https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
Via https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/...