Few things are more Microsofty than a team reaching over to a competitor's language instead of using their own and to boot none of the reasons given so far seem credible, good job to the team nonetheless.
Just download the latest visual studio, no need for gimmicks or trying to reproduce the unix dev experience on windows, just embrace the platform, warts and all, and call it a day.
The equity offering was nearing and then the board just fired Altman out of nowhere and had no credible reasons or a narrative to sell to the employees, then they quickly caught on that their comp would go to smokes with this clueless lot at the helm who can't even justify a firing without making a pig's breakfast of the whole affair and demanded the reinstatement of the CEO for their pocket's sake, simple as that.
I held the 'upgrade' from 7 to 10 for more than a decade, when I did I had to remove a lot of stuff to get back my baseline usability, so once more unto the breach when I get around doing that methinks.
Most people are so bombarded with ads on the web that they scarcely think it weird that their OS does the same, anyone who cares about this has been able to do something about it a long time ago, I have never seen an ad on my windows 10 installation.
This is tangentially related at best but I always found it amusing that a forum for founders and populated mainly by pampered white-collar workers happens to be one of the hot-spots of revolutionary sentiment in the interweb, very ironic.