Worries around this seem a bit much. They are making an experimental version of the protocol so they don’t need to sit on their hands while changes are accepted. They’re not bypassing the normal process.

I love to bash MS, but this feels like an industry-wide trend to /never/ care about optimizing beyond the bar of “typical specs of new devices in rich countries”. I’m guessing it’s just to limit labor costs, and computers are less-rapidly-improving than the 90s/00s?