It's not the product that's going to get extinguished. It's the perpetual licenses that will be gone. You'll be renting forever with massive vendor lock-in and no negotiating power because, as a cab driver in Mexico told me when he was charging me 8x the normal rate on a busy night, "the price is the price."
They would of course extinguish competitors' products.
Why should we provide toolchains for you to download, just use this... . No, no, you don't want to use your own choice of middleware but the one we preconfigured in the VM... .
What they would gain from this? Rent, obviously. No, no, making this work with the offline software you bought is complicated (because we want it to be), just paying our monthly subscription is much easier...
TBH I liked the old M$ more - a rather predictable actor that didn't try to monetize their core software in extremely unfortunate ways that alienate their userbase very effectively.
I'll never feel comfortable with OS pushing me adverts in OS menus. Can't avoid Win10 for PC gaming (no, there are unfortunately no good enough alternatives for what I want).
