Not a shock to me at all, nor to anyway who's owned a Samsung device in the past.<p>I've had two Samsung phones and both are <i>loaded</i> with crapware. Some essential apps, such as Calendar, come with multiple versions. Games I would never play are installed by default. And yes, most of the built-in apps like Facebook simply can't be removed.<p>The only thing preventing me from switching to a Pixel, which I've heard takes a staunchly anti-crapware stance, is the lack of a headphone jack.
if you've got adb (Android Debug Bridge) at hand you could try to uninstall with that method:
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <packagename>
"A Facebook spokesperson said the disabled version of the app acts like it's been deleted, so it doesn't continue collecting data or sending information back to Facebook. But there's rarely communication with the consumer about the process."<p>If this is the case then why not allow it to be deleted?