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You said it yourself primitive. When you want to destroy and erase something you don't go about a technical solution. You smash it to bits, you throw it in acid, you dump it deep at sea. There is no elaborate software to fully remove Edge without corrupting the system and disabling other features. You can take a registry change or group policy, be my guest. Try it for yourself. Install a program and then change the path and then run the executable. See what happens.
The only issues it causes is if there are dependencies on that software for other things to run. If certain software cannot be found then process aborted, or something similiar. Edge doesn't affect the rest of the system if it's disabled. It's not like you are interfering with system files. You're making a path to an executable obsolete. It's as simple as that.
The first place Windows will look is in the registry and GPO but how can it factor in a potentially unpredictable new path name? If you changed the path completely so that even a super precise regex couldn't find it Windows is still not finding the executable because hey, you've hidden the treasure.
Hey, up to you what you do.