Thinking about, Copilot is in it's own way, a continuation of this, just more dev-friendly.
I'd categorize this as incompetence, not malice towards developers.
Specifically: Microsoft thought that code-creation wizards and UI would offer a better story than command line and text. Those attempts were misguided, and MS adjusted. The command line culture at MS has been pervasive for a long time, despite the quirkiness of DOS, so I must object to your categorization of MS being anti command-line and anti-scripting.
[disclaimer, MS employee, my opinion only.]
Most Windows users prefer GUI over the command line.
That being said, Microsoft released PowerShell, Windows Terminal and lots of command line tools. A large part of the Windows administration can be done trough command line if one so desires.