Microsoft is right now making a huge bet on Delta by way of their “Microsoft Fabric” initiative (as always with Microsoft: Is it a product? Is it a branding scheme? Yes.)

They seem to be the only vendor crazy enough to try to fast-follow Databricks, who is clearly driving the increasingly elaborate and sophisticated Delta ecosystem (check the GitHub traffic…)

But Microsoft + Databricks is a lot of momentum for Delta.

On the merits of open & simple, I agree, better for everyone if Iceberg wins out—as Iceberg and not as some Frankenstandard mashed together with Delta by the force of 1,000 Databricks engineers.