Your argument suffers from the fact that Ballmer almost tanked the company, so perhaps this rosy look back isn't the whole story, and you need to focus a bit on

Your argument suffers from the fact that Ballmer almost tanked the company, so perhaps this rosy look back isn't the whole story, and you need to focus a bit on "get things done" and a bit on "maintain it for the future", it's not as simple as FAANG=good or FAANG=bad. Unless you're happy that all those 99% developers have created towers of COBOL that run the world and they can't touch or upgrade.