Funny, because the entire industry is motivated to move away from x86 too. I wonder if he'd like that to happen.
Any new business problem in a Microsoft shop is going to go with a Power Platform/Teams/SharePoint Online solution as first prize.
Personally, I like it, even if it has some annoying challenges. I've not seen anything else come close in terms of rapid application development, integration and deployment; there's very little to license and what there is left falls under existing procurement relationships for most big enterprises that rely on Microsoft already.