To give more context, MS basically forked Chromium/Chrome as Edge, so if somehow Google would close off Chromium they wouldn't be left standing in the cold. Th

To give more context, MS basically forked Chromium/Chrome as Edge, so if somehow Google would close off Chromium they wouldn't be left standing in the cold. That said, OP's point is crystal clear, these silly new platform projects are the busywork of vestigial orgs.