What is up with the post title being unrelated to the linked article?

No clue

The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.

That first Bo Burnham video in his room with a keyboard

The point is that they have no financial incentive to clean up or prevent bloat, so they don’t.

Linux doesn’t either, but the Linux community operates on principles and passion instead of financial incentives, and so thusly is not similarly bloated.

The goal of msft isn’t to be an efficient steward of your resources, or better enable the user, or to create a platform for game/app developers in hopes of creating a more attractive ecosystem for you.

It’s nothing like any of those things.

The goal of Microsoft is to maximize shareholder returns, and the best way to do that is to abuse their dominant market position while monetizing every aspect of their platform that most people will buy anyway.