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It wasn't just bundled, it was tightly integrated. You could not easily remove it for a period of time, especially if you were the average user.
And, dusting off some old complaints, I seem to recall it was part of a strategy to control not just the browsing experience but also the hosting and serving of web pages. https://www.howtogeek.com/717016/remembering-activex-controls-the-webs-biggest-mistake/
It was all about locking you into Microsoft in any possible way. (sounds familiar)
Netscape did not have, and never was anywhere close to having, the sort of weight MS did to throw around.
MS has always been about doing whatever they can do to lock you tightly to their ecosystem, ethics be damned. Before they applied EEE to Linux, they first tried applying it to the web and a bunch of other stuff.