Makes sense. Still, I've been burned a bit when Microsoft surprisingly abandoned a developer tool I purchased. Flagship or not, a lot can change in a few years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...
Was this tool superseded by Visual Studio ?
From what I can tell they went from having a dozen small dev tools into consolidating everything in VS Studio.
This has also been somewhat mitigated by VS Code, not everyone needs a giant 30GB ide to edit text. I think Microsoft is one of the better companies when it comes to developers. You don't even need Windows to compile Windows software... Unlike Apple that locks everything behind over priced hardware.