I'm pretty sure Microsoft can pay them enough to be happy to learn it.
> You want to learn something that leads to a long-term career development path, not a sunsetting technology.
This seems like such an odd take when web frameworks seem to be obsolete almost as soon as you start using them. C++ has and will continue to be around for a very long time.
This is just the result of bad leadership at Microsoft.
That's why they got the job, didn't they ? /s