As someone who used delphi throughout the transition from borland, to inprise, to eventually getting bought out by embarcadero my perception was always that the

As someone who used delphi throughout the transition from borland, to inprise, to eventually getting bought out by embarcadero my perception was always that their management wanted to be in a different business than desktop developer tools and would use the revenue from delphi to “diversify”, while structurally underinvesting in the product and regularly raising its price. It wasn’t necessarily wrong to see desktop development as a dead end, but they failed to make something as great as delphi to replace it, and gradually became irrelevant.