[WorldMaker]

Because F# was Microsoft's first open source language to even allow community involvement in its design processes and accept PRs directly from the community (C#, VB, and Typescript have all subsequently followed in F#'s trailblazed path here), there is a strong sense of not wanting to dictate the language direction and instead build the language as a community effort. It's been such a point of pride in the F# community that so much of F#'s development has been out in the open and a community effort, that are good reasons Microsoft would want to make sure its language was inclusive of that and respectful to that history.