Comment by lucideer

I work in a large corp, I know how these things work - my company has taken longer to do simpler things than this. My observation wasn't to call this out as unusual or unexpected.

I think you've summarised it really well, & it shows:

- the revolutionary promises of AI-driven rapid delivery is nonsense when the delivery bottleneck was always elsewhere - AI is speeding up the part that was never slow

- the fact that - as you point out - it was likely working in Feb but needed a business case gives a good impression of the leadership's approach to Linux support: it's likely such internal case-making will continue to be a factor in future Linux build maintained