I didn't interpret it as "snotty" (not beyond the norm for this forum, anyway). Could have been worded better, but charitable interpretation is an HN guideline.
> There is some bizarre tendency in here for people to pretend that everything Microsoft does well they've only done well for most recent history, as if this is some sort of odd proselytizing and naysayers should realize that everything has changed.
Or perhaps the parent just disagrees with you on merit and there is no nefarious underlying motive? In my experience at least, Microsoft's ethos and behavior has improved significantly in the last ~decade with respect to openness, developer friendliness, attitude toward open source, product quality, etc. It seems clear to me that there is some broad cultural change at MS and it seems plausible that it could affect documentation quality as well.
Personally, I don't have a dog in this documentation fight, but your comment seems unjustifiably angry.