This is insane.
I can see why gamers all over the world are rejoicing, for now...
But all this shows to me is that Microsoft have no idea what they're doing... They're supposed to be guiding us into a future that we cannot even know we want, just because it's the future, but instead, it's us pulling them back from the future they tried to create and they caved. Well that was a well thought out future then...
Gives me absolutely zero trust that they're capable of bringing the future to games if all they end up doing is playing catch up.