Canonical has been pushing its own agenda for ages, how many examples do you need?

Microsoft making Rust tier 1 is great, it means probably one day we get a VS proper support instead of VSCode only.

If you head off to Microsoft official blogs, you will find out that Microsoft already has tier 1 support for Java (ironically), Python and Go, besides the usual .NET languages and C++.

It removes a GPLv3 dependency that might stop some companies from adopting Ubuntu Core.