Yeah it's not just canonical even. A lot of commercial vendors are constantly pushing their stuff. My windows box is constantly trying to push me to use edge and "the new outlook" and I had to jump through hoops to install it without a Microsoft account. My Mac keeps warning me I haven't signed up for Apple pay and am not logged in with an apple id. It keeps this passive-agressive red dot on the settings icon as a reminder to "finish setting up my Mac".

I wish vendors would just let me use my computer how I want.