Comment by martin-t

You're looking at it from a developer's POV. Your goals are a quality product that helps you with your work.

Microsoft's goal is to make money by making software or ~~selling~~ renting services. You are a cost center.

And what do managers do to cost centers? They outsource them, either to artificial "intelligence" or actual Indians.

By plagiarizing stolen code, disregarding its original license, they hope to make the former actually work.