No bullshitting here. In the first beta build for Windows 11, if you pressed F7 on any of the new UI elements - the lock screen, the task bar, the Start menu, the new Explorer bits, the Windows 11 Control Panel, hell, I think even the new right-click context menu -
there was a bug that would turn on Edge's Caret Browsing mode. It got fixed very quickly from what I remember and it no longer happens.
But, if you install a completely brand new, clean install of Windows 11 and you keep it disconnected from the Internet? Open the Task Manager and you'll see a dozen or so instances of Edge in the background. Kill them, and you break the shell.
Yes. Microsoft has gone full retard and is actively rewriting the Windows shell to be a god damn Electron app.