I know. But in my opinion it's not just that they read the leaves, it's also they push their own platform towards irrelevance and thus the whole situation is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
In comparison to say WPF, the web stack was very lacking. It wasn't for example until a few years ago that we got CSS grids. Heck, HTML components are still not mainstream, despite solving a very problem... which doesn't elsewhere.
I see this trend accelerating so for once it seems Microsoft has read the tea leaves correctly.