Hi, I'm an ungraceful walrus who keeps fat fingering the menu at the bottom of my screen and interrupting what I'm reading and would love an option to have it be moved to the top thanks.
Pic is what I see instead of the post I'm trying to read when I fatfinger it.
Back when I used Samsung, the custom ROM scene offered stock ROMs with all the crapware removed - usually labeled as "debloated". If you can find them, those should allow you to update with your S-Pen still working. You can also debloat Android yourself (sort of; without root it just disables packages rather than uninstalling them) using UAB.
You'd lose KNOX though, and a lot of modern apps deliberately break themselves if you're not running pure stock (or spoofing it, which I can help with if you want to go this route).