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I would guess that many low-level workerbees in Microsoft foresaw the obvious reaction, but it's career-limiting to tell the emperor he has no clothes, when the emperor surrounds himself with sycophants who only tell him YES.


This is probably endemic to Big Tech now -- the chorus of AI, AI, AI is still growing, and that's all the execs want more of.




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