With MS and FAANG, it’s not so much forgetting as deliberately trying to avoid an unfortunate acronym.
Also Netflix got excluded in the new one because "the digital streaming pioneer’s market capitalization has not kept up with the others."
[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/cramer-new-acronym-to-replac...