Yep, and this fiasco was easy to predict: of course nobody (enterprises and hobbyists) would rewrite decades of legacy code to a platform that 1. wasn’t support

Yep, and this fiasco was easy to predict: of course nobody (enterprises and hobbyists) would rewrite decades of legacy code to a platform that 1. wasn’t supported on the most deployed Windows version at the time 2. didn’t provide feature parity with Win32 3. imposed an ugly toolkit not adapted to desktop apps (i.e. 100% of Windows device at the time, and probably still >90% nowadays) and 4. imposed a distribution model with a very significant "store tax".