By following Microsoft blogs, articles, BUILD presentations among other sources, I get the idea that this whole mess, going back to WP 7, was once again the result of their political wars between DevTools and Windows division.

Oh that's interesting. I suppose any internal conflict ultimately comes down to issues of leadership and vision, regardless of the company size.

I might be completely wrong, and everything I wrote in this comment is not correct, but this is how I saw it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069181#13071212