I don't think Clippy is liked as much as he's a common thing people can agree on and as such he gets a lot of attention. Same for MS, it's not an accident that

I don't think Clippy is liked as much as he's a common thing people can agree on and as such he gets a lot of attention. Same for MS, it's not an accident that even non-technical folk moved onto chrome away from IE/Edge even though IE had huge marketshare at one point.