Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They’re switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
Without Builders, you don’t have software, and without software, you don’t have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.
Tbf their main userbase comes from it being preinstalled.
Imagine if highschools spent one day in tech classes teaching how to install a new OS instead of microsoft word for the 640th time.