Hot take: it’s not really Microsoft’s fault or responsibility, as there is no Microsoft to be responsible or faulted for this craziness.
It’s one individual (or two? Or a small team, but really not that big of a group) who is rotten to the core and is so career-obsessed they don’t understand that they are making lives of millions of people worse with this, so that they can just show their PowerPoint to higher up.
It is a personal responsibility of a PM / engineer (unlikely) to not come up with this cancer.
The org doesn’t promote PMs who have those ethics, so they never get to make these calls the correct way. The company wants this, long term at least, and select the people that will do it via hiring and promo.
well my point is that nobody can really pin anything on "Microsoft" but surely there are people who chose this kind of approach to advance themselves.
Versus building new tools or experiences, etc. etc.
This is on some specific people's conscience, nobody made them do it in a way an angry tiger makes people try to run away. It was some one or two people's choice.
Were there other people in their place, we would have never had this problem.
It’s one individual (or two? Or a small team, but really not that big of a group) who is rotten to the core and is so career-obsessed they don’t understand that they are making lives of millions of people worse with this, so that they can just show their PowerPoint to higher up.
It is a personal responsibility of a PM / engineer (unlikely) to not come up with this cancer.