While they contributed, they were still following the market trend anyway. If they weren't letting folks use it directly, other companies would have (and are).

> they were still following the market trend anyway.

They started the trend with Copilot.

> If they weren't letting folks use it directly

There is a chasm of difference between “letting you use it” and “forcing it down your throat”. Microsoft is doing the latter, not the former. Copilot is annoyingly present by default at every step on GitHub.