MS owes people a working basic Windows ecosystem. We need to find the Middle Manager Driven Development that's responsible for this nonsense and put an end to it.
You think a shift like this is coming from middle management? Feels like an executive driven strategy shift towards recurring revenue, subscriptions, advertising, data collection, app stores, and away from the old OS licensing business model to me.
I don't really agree with that. The infinite growth mindset is just capitalism and the current market realities being executed by the board and the C-Suite.
Dysfunctional middle management is motivated more by protecting their job, kingdom building, and promotions.