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Strongly, strongly doubt the problem is due to lazy coders.

Organizations like this are always, always dysfunctional at the leadership level.

ICs don't design the UX or choose the technology for Microsoft teams, senior principal architects and deputy vice president corporate usabilities do.

The Vice President in charge of this is allowing their directors to engage in ridiculous design by committee.

If you spent even a day at Microsoft, you would see thousands of programmers (and people of every role as well) just phoning it in.

It is an absolute nightmare. A terrible place to work for anyone who has a spine, ambition, and sense of pride.

Oh definitely. I find though, that if leadership has their head screwed on that kind of thing doesn't happen.

Laziness seeps in from the top down.