Comment by jongjong

Microsoft has been butchering software development for decades and maintaining dominance through pure business, legal and government connections. It's become like Oracle.

Developers being forced to use horrible Microsoft products is the logical consequence of that.

As a software engineer, most of my job exists to give credibility to the narrative that Microsoft is useful... And I don't even work for Microsoft. It's clear that there are deals behind the scenes which force many large companies into Microsoft contracts. The engineers have to work with what they get and pretend the tech is OK but behind the facade, it's clear from the jokes on the Microsoft Teams chats that they think differently!