P: remove all the background apps when LR or PS is not running

I upgrded from LR 6.14 the the latest Adobe Photography plan (on Windows 11) and only require LR Classic and and PS.  After running the new LR and then closing the application there were still a dozen processes running,.  I contacted support and they said that apps were Creative Cloud apps.  I explained that I wasn't interested in Creative Cloud so they walked me through removing Creative Cloud.

A couple days later PS wouldn't start - said I didn't have Creative Cloud installed.  I called support and the support person I got said I had to have Creative Cloud installed or PS wouldn't run.  Nice.  Anyway, I installed Creative Cloud and PS worked.  But then I was balk to the plethora of Adobe applications still loaded.

I understand that that Adobe wants to check for updates or check the validity of the application, but can this not be done when the application starts and then whatever performs the update/validation check then terminate?  And does it really take that many applications to do this?  Who designs this stuff?  With LR 6.14, it checked for updates and my license status but didn't require a dozen resident apps to do it.

Please change your program so that it only consumes resources when in use; shut down those applications when LR and PS are terminated.  It's not rocket science.