Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to start their search with an empty view and only show the results after the view has been filtered.

Solution:
This can be achieved by wrapping your view output content in a conditional block and then using that conditional block to check if a particular parameter is present in the URL.

Enable the advanced conditional editor for the conditional block and then add this conditional to it.

NOT ( empty( '[wpv-search-term param='wpv_view_count']') ) 

Once you've done this all you need to do is to drag your other view blocks into the conditional. The conditional will only display the results section when you've performed a search and it sees the wpv_view_count parameter.

Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to delete the query filters on their block view.

Solution:

This can be done by going to the query filter section of your view and then click on the delete button next to the query filter you want to remove.