[keithnz]

I always got the impression that the devblogs were mostly driven by the MS dev creating the blog post

[lazyasciiart]

Yea, I have a post up there from a couple decades ago (maybe? I haven't looked, I don't know if they keep stuff up forever) and I guarantee you my code went through more review than that post did.

[anonymars]

Agreed. And I think the quality of their talent pool overall these days is the common factor