You're really big on putting words in my mouth on this.
> I see you strongly believe that losing tens of millions is good management.
Costs are relative to size. There are a lot of people involved, it's going to cost a lot of money. Microsoft's operating expenses are estimated to be just shy of $350 million per day. At that scale, 10s of millions is not as impactful.
Could it have been done better? Of course.
Could it have been much worse? Yep. Significantly.
> I see you strongly believe that losing tens of millions is good management.
Costs are relative to size. There are a lot of people involved, it's going to cost a lot of money. Microsoft's operating expenses are estimated to be just shy of $350 million per day. At that scale, 10s of millions is not as impactful.
Could it have been done better? Of course.
Could it have been much worse? Yep. Significantly.