Honestly, I was surpised as well and your comment made me feel old. And, I do know what game pass is. It's a third tier app store. Let me know when a game achieves such a similar performance on Steam.
I don't think we're there yet. More likel, job growth rate will be slowed as leadership pockets the efficiency gains of chatGPT requiring workers to do more with less.
The issue is that Intuit adds more value than just filing of the taxes. They collect plenty of PII data that they sell which the government is not interested in but would have to pay for it. Building the tax filing software platform isn't difficult and it's not the value of Intuit, it's the market share. The governments version of the software can gain the market share with little troubles. There is no reason that it has to pay for it.
why would you use hard drives and flash storage to compare against for storage longevity?
basic google searches suggest,
LTO is last 15-30 years and,
Optical media, 50-100 years