Resources ... Okay. What truly comes as a shock is the fact that Microsoft says they don't have expertise to continue this project. I mean, who is building Windows then? It's the same building blocks, no?!
It is quite obvious from whoever takes place on community calls, or that still answers on endless Github discussions, that their background isn't Windows development.
You see this by them usually not understanding what the framework is still missing from MFC, Forms, WPF, both in features, and Visual Studio tooling.
All the key figures from Windows 8 days regarding WinRT, left for Amazon, Google, or internally to Azure and AI groups.
Given the latest layoff rounds there is also good chance that indeed they fired the people who had the expertise on this.
Armies of H1Bs frantically copying and pasting from Stack Overflow until something compiles.
I am personally a huge fan of win32. I was even a ReactOS contributor at one point because of this. That being said, it wasn’t scalable without major changes. Thankfully most win32 apps still work on Windows.
It is like Windows Development team has something against nice tooling for COM, only man with hard bear are supposed to handle it. /s