"All you need to do" is not realistically feasible in this case.

It sometimes just takes a little while. Unless the human race leans to not give any power to greedy assholes, the future does not look good at all.

They are taking the last chance they have before absolutely everybody can see they have no future.

I wonder how many will fail it and buy in.

They will know that on some level. But I highly doubt they understand that. They have had ample warning that they are trying to do things cheaper than possible with their cloud getting hacked several times now and their constant issues with Windows and Office. But they learned nothing from that. They still believe they have good, competitive products when all that keeps them alive is momentum.

Add their politically motivated blocking of professional users (that backfired extremely) and I do not think Microslop has a future.

Hopefully. I think the chances for that are pretty good.

Yes. And with the level of "quality" Microslop is delivering, I see that as a good thing.

There are solid indicators that say writing software via prompt takes quite a bit more skill than doing it directly. At least if your software should be secure, maintainable and usable. Of course, Microslop is aiming for neither of these qualities...

From the continued enshittification of their products, I thought MS was already doing everything with "AI"?

Microsoft has made sure they are fundamentally incapable of hiring competent people. It is not compatible with their business model.

Microsoft has no employees left that know how to make a quality product anyways.

At this time, the only hope for that is a competitor that grows large enough and will take a decade or two to become as crap as YT.

Yes. Deep enshittification is their real problem. As soon as some competitor manages to get big enough, YouTube is simply dead.

Personally, I have a small number of people that I follow and everybody else I do not even look at. Too much slop. And the re-recommendation of videos I actually have looked at is insane. Like somebody made a decision to save money on data-storage instead of offering a basic feature that everybody will want.

I wonder how that will work out for them in the long run?

Probably. But why would they get rid of all the people that could actually have done better and make good products? This way they will only have a shell left that will do even worse. Can they really be this extremely stupid? I guess they actually are.