Given that Microsoft's overhead to actually landing features has, from what I've heard, long been more about dodging the cross-org and inter-org "guns" famously depicted in [0] and [1] than coding time... a 24% increase in merged PRs is massive!

[0] https://static.ma.nu/publications/images/2013.07.12_new_york...

[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/i/138252015/drawing...