I just pray they don't skimp on the fundamentals and realise that delivering a crap compiler and tools will have a significant cost in sales because developers will give up and lose faith when it doesn't work. On the whole though I hope that other vendors follow suit, it's been going in that direction for some time. They're rare, but they do happen, and the workarounds are not always nice. If you've ever suffered at the hands of compiler bugs, particularly unreported ones, you'll know what I mean.
The biggest problem with skimping on QA on compilers in particular is that the way bugs manifest themselves are often subtle, and can cost a lot of money and time in your development projects. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows. One thing to be aware of though is that although I might have a five or six figure silicon budget each year, there are now vast swathes of tinkerers whose spend is sub $100 pa, and for whom they're unlikely to see any return. Bean counters on the other hand are a different breed.
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