s/Embrace/Extend

... except that if Microsoft did, likely very few would embrace such extensions.

A successful EEE play requires a lot of pre-existing trust that has to last through the Extend phase, which is why I don't think they'll ever try that again in the foreseeable future.

Anecdotally, I've seen apparent fanfare and demand for DirectX for WSL that Microsoft recently built so I'm skeptical of this.