No, they fired the "prosumer" advocates, not the "I wish my PC was an iPad" advocates. This means the end of anyone inside Microsoft arguing for less telemetry and ads in Windows.

"What's next, calling yourself FedExEx Express and shedding all delivery vehicles, banking on uber for the deliveries?"
Don't look now (or do) but the delivery vans are already owned and operated by 3rd party contractors.

They do have ideas.

That's the problem, their customer base mostly doesn't want "ideas", they want "the same boring layer that goes between my apps and my hardware, but with fewer bugs than last year".

"The year of Linux on the Desktop" has been a running joke on slashdot as long as there has been a slashdot.

Don't forget the most important problem of all: "Video games are hundred billion dollar industry. How can I, a humble cryptobro with zero artistic talent and marginal programming skills get a percentage of that?"

Which sounds great until you try it, and find yourself always writing a novel in PS to replicate what would be a haiku in bash.

Or it's good, but it pisses off someone unethical who buys thousands of dislikes to push it down in the rankings (happened to EEVBlog several times when he took on the right scammers)
That's my not quite a conspiracy theory: YouTube has some internal metrics that show a majority of likes are genuine but a majority of dislikes are coming from bots and click farms, and they chose the lowest-effort possible way to deal with it. Who cares if it annoys viewers and creators? We're Google and they're not.

But you don't get a physical cartridge, you get a receipt stored in the blockchain that conveys nothing except the right to (try to) re-sell the receipt later.

A lot of smart people are looking at NFT mania right now and thinking "It can't possibly be that dumb, I must be missing something here"

You're not. It is exactly that dumb.

That's not true.

It also gets a lot of ads in front of the sort of people who are afraid of everything and want an authoritarian strongman to do take action against Them, right now, before Them's murderous drones destroy suburban civilization.

Will the stablecoin-denominated number on on some exchange go into 6 digits? Maybe, the number do what the trading bots are told to make the number do.

Will there be proper arm's-length trades of 100,000 real American dollars for one Bitcoin? LOL, no.

I admire your optimism.

You're going to need another differentiator, Sillycon Valley VCs have been throwing money at everyone who can spell "blockchain" for 5+ years now.

Have you been "out there" recently?

It's hot, and sticky, and there are mosquitoes, and snakes, and traffic jams, and plague zombies who want to lick your eyeballs to own the libs, and half of it's either on fire or flooded at any given time, and the other half is closed anyway because - you know - the plague.

All you had to do was live next door to one of the developers to find out about it in the first place, and then buy exactly the same PC they had for hardware compatibility.

It's right next to the one for leaked pre-alpha builds of Windows...