"So of course I opened the big bad search engine and typed Nordic nRF9160 bare-metal example. I quickly learned that, while bare-metal programming Nordic boards is possible"
Google, of course, is very big, angry and bad, but there is no need to search for what is on the manufacturer’s website:
I search for things I've written/published myself all the time. stuff really lives in the same place for more than a few months/years, and I forget where they were anyway, and often forget 90% of what's in it, so search is much faster at getting me there than trying to navigate the n+1th iteration of the website.
Google, of course, is very big, angry and bad, but there is no need to search for what is on the manufacturer’s website: