Having the drivers installed is fine and, quite frankly, good; for exactly the reason you point out. When they aren’t being used they are only taking up disk space. And that is OK, nobody is particularly upset with Windows’ disk space.

It is the RAM usage, telemetry, and other running processes that just don’t need to be running. These are the things that make a Windows setup so bloated. One doesn’t need to reach out and tell MS every time you open the start menu, one doesn’t need Candy Crush and One Drive ads appearing in the OS. There is no good way to turn all that off. That is just using resources and making the OS worse for users.

8GB should be fine for Windows 11. However, the OS is so bloated that it simply isn’t.

Microsoft should fix that.

They should make good single player and smaller-scope games again. Their massive-budget, live-service games have proven unsustainable.

Note yours is only 70€ less because it is missing the storage and power supply prices.

Mentioning this as it actually makes your point stronger.