I wrote this in the di.xml to override this segment
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
<virtualType name="Magento\Catalog\Ui\DataProvider\Product\Form\Modifier\Pool">
<arguments>
<argument name="modifiers" xsi:type="array">
<item name="product_form_eav" xsi:type="array">
<item name="class" xsi:type="string">Test\Module\Ui\DataProvider\Product\Form\Modifier\Eav</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">2000</item>
</item>
</argument>
</arguments>
</virtualType>
</config>
And then created the Eav.php file and changed the "modifyMeta" function like so
public function modifyMeta(array $meta)
{
$productType = $this->getProductType();
if ($productType === Type::TYPE_SIMPLE) {
$disabledGroups = [
'search-engine-optimization'
];
foreach ($disabledGroups as $disabledGroup) {
unset($meta[$disabledGroup]);
}
}
return $meta;
}
and I got the names of the segments I needed to remove from the inspect element next to the "data-index" attribute 