> Material Design is focusing on support for Google's large-scale internal Wiz framework, and has reassigned the engineers working on Material Web Components. This places MWC into maintenance mode.

This shows that even widely used open-source projects aren't immune to being abandoned by the companies. I'm currently enjoying VS Code, but I wonder if it will face a similar fate. There's a risk Microsoft could prioritize VisualStudio or move important features behind a paywall. It may be one or two board members away from abusing their market power to push for full monetization of the product.