There's many other problems with the start menu - specifically search
1) Anything not found opens in Edge™ and not your default browser (WTF?)
2) It loads lazily - so sometimes you hit enter and the highlighted item has already changed
3) Partial searches don't work very well.
At this point, I'm wondering if there's a start menu replacement app
About 1), I'm using MSEdgeRedirect [1] to forward "microsoft-edge:" URIs to my default browser. Other browsers were planning to support Edge's URI scheme as well so users could change the default browser for it, but Microsoft updated that option away during Windows 10.