Fair points, cathartic is probably the wrong word - how about 'draw a line under'.

I don't think Microsoft is bad to want to make money, more that the choices around now make it a different dynamic around web technologies.

I'm not sure why others write these posts, for me it was more a long winded way to say 'After a long time I'm not mainly using the Microsoft dev stack, here's what this blog will be about'.

I won't suddenly forget 6 years of .net, but for me it's quite a shift.