Looks like top management has completely given up on gaming following the disastrous acquisitions of Activision and Zenimax.
They've killed their first party studios, their hardware and now their last remaining thing which was the game pass.
Always remember, Fitgirl is free.
This is the main reason Valve invested so heavily in Proton (it was an act of self-preservation, not of kindness). They could smell that coming from miles away the moment Microsoft integrated their own app store into Windows.
Any port in a storm. I'm just glad there a slush fund for open source that isn't just Red Hat/IBM