The answer is not complicated, and it has two parts: 1. Microsoft isn't a person and doesn't have values. 2. Businesses behave their worst when they are domin

The answer is not complicated, and it has two parts: 1. Microsoft isn't a person and doesn't have values. 2. Businesses behave their worst when they are dominant players in a space, and their best when they are weak or marginal in a space. Microsoft has been responding to their relative weakness when it comes to certain kinds of developer tooling with relatively user-friendly 'open core' freeware. They have nothing forcing them to 'play nice' when it comes to their desktop operating system. So they won't! And they haven't, for a very long time. Windows has a host of other defects (stability, UI inconsistency, etc.), but aside from those its enshittification (infestation with adware, push towards online accounts via dark patterns, continual piling on of more telemetry, etc.) has been going on longer than the 'new Microsoft'. It's not a turning away from some newer, nicer Microsoft in any way— it's been continuous and simultaneous with that new Microsoft the whole time.