[tux3]

And why not :)

People have different preferences for what they like to work on, but you seem to be implying the weather app engineers are incapable of doing that work. Like they're some kind of lower caste that must be kept away from working on security mitigations for filesystem drivers.

I don't believe there's some category of human that's capable of shipping Windows 10 feature apps, and only that. People can move internally! People can leave and other people can be hired. It's all priorities and task allocation.

The impression I get (and please correct me) is not really that there's an oversupply of news feed app builders on the market, but that the Windows team at Microsoft has been shifting to more user-facing features rather than internal deep kernel work.

[NicoJuicy]

There are more than 1500 developers working on visual studio alone ( not VS code).

I'm pretty sure that a developer that wants to switch can and not many kernel developers would be impacted in total.

Besides, paint and notepad getting a make-over doesn't make a dent of difference for a company at this size.