One Drive keeps recreating itself

On windows 11 I uninstalled OneDrive and moved my pictures and documents from user>onedrive>docs TO user>docs, but it seems like my programs are confused now and dont recognize the documents or pictures folders. it keeps trying to go back to the onedrive destination for these. this isn't an issue with the program itself, because I have selected the correct filepath for this.

One program that should be creating files in User>documents, which was previously using user>onedrive>docs, will only recreate the file in my base C: drive.

This is incredibly annoying that onedrive works its way so far into the basic functioning of my files, even after uninstall.. Is there any way to make Windows 11 filepaths stop trying to read these from the onedrive path? Again, note it is NOT an issue with the paths I set myself within my programs. Is this yet another horrible windows 11 feature I need to registry edit out so I can get my files to function?

Also, the Onedrive>pictures folder keeps recreating itself, even after deleting and uninstalling. Theres nothing in there, but the file should stay deleted.

I have yet to restart my computer since deleting those, but I'm worried if I do I'll somehow accidentally delete all of these files or something unintended. Do I have to reinstall onedrive, turn off the file paths its trying to sync, then re-uninstall it to make it stop? or because i accidentally did that on startup I'm screwed forever?

also, when in my windows settings, it doesn't even show anything for system storage.

says this for pictures too, which was the other onedrive folder. I definitely have MANY GB of files in these folders. They are both in user>docs, etc, with the little icon intact.

Cannot understate my immense annoyance with having to use windows 11. You know I'm desperate if I'm considering other OS's over this.

Please let me know how to stop my file's reliance on this filepath. Or, if I HAVE to put it back to user>onedrive>docs/pics, if i uninstall onedrive, will those then become deleted?

In the attempts to make this OS more user friendly to PC incompetant people, it has done the opposite.