Capitalism is doing its thing, consolidation.
At least in this case, I don’t think you can possibly do much worse than the current ownership aside from intentional self destruction, so Microsoft as owners can only be equally bad or better.

I love a good indie game crowdfunder, but at this point Star Citizen is effectively a triple-A game. In turn, this raises the bar for what we expect it to look like and deliver

Interesting, in that I feel that indie games are in general better products than “triple-A” games, sometimes this is still valid if you include early access indie games…