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MSFT stock up 100x since then. Edit: I guess this was your point, criticism was either heeded or was off.

MSFT stock stagnated for more than a decade and jumped once they fired Ballmer and got rid of his stack ranking system. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/sto...

I heard it's back now (not sure if for this year only due to the reduced budget, or just ongoing).

Sure, and NFT prices went up times infinity. Doesn't mean that's benefited human society any.