The purchase wasn't a year ago, it was 8 years ago. In that time how much has it grown? 10x? 100x? More?

That can happen many times during a buyout. Some company buys a thing. The problem then is ownership of the thing. Who in the new company is going to own the 'make sure it stays good' problem. Sometimes with a buy out the people who were doing that may even stay at the company. But it is a matter of motivation. MS has a real serious problem. You can see the gaps where they have glued together at least 10 companies together and called it microsoft. They have a huge reputational risk issue. Where something breaking in the xbox div can have a negative impact on the tools division. Also the other way around. They lack focus on many items. They have needed a 'service pack 2' stop the presses moment and fix this mount everest of tech debt.

Yes, of course, but also more recently under the new CoreAI unit: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-coding-rivals-o...

I think is more related to vibe coding

Even after decades, the policy is the same:

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

It is absolutely not just you

Is it just me, or [thing that has been repeated a billion times every day on this and every other website]