Comment by mindcrash

I recently had to scrub my former employers S21 to send it back and evidently I have to say Samsung doesn't really do this anymore, at least not in the EU.

You are greeted with a screen with all the crap it wants to install after turning on the phone for the first time (which you can fully skip) and that's it. A One UI 7/8 setup can be pretty bare bones and minimalistic if you want, at least here in the EU.