Samsung are infuriating: the S9, after some update, is now running a sequence of two animations before finally showing the content of the app drawer. It would be bad enough if they were running concurrently (which would admittedly look somewhat slick), but no, you wait for one to finish, get your expectations up, but then there is the second animation just starting. I don't know wether it's stupidity or malice (timed to the release of the s10 to make the old model feel sufficiently slow?) and I've long come to refuse invoking Hanlon's Razor when it comes to Samsung.
Boo Boo. Don't like it - root it, hack it. It this hacker news or what?
In any case Android Q disables access to external storage, so it's either one submits to Apple-style walled garden or seeks something else. Where those vendorcrap apps aren't there or are removed without any problem.
And if someone does submit to the Q changes, then there's no point to discuss.