Early on? after 3,5 years that they were working on it? the game was well beyond scrapping zone when M had any power over it.
I think they just wanted to release this thing as soon as possible after they sniffed how bad it was, they gave arkane a delay to make the game at least alpha-state playable and hoped for the best.
Shit, greedy management all you want, M still didn't made the game, arkane did.
The problem is that you can't play the greedy management, the hands off management and the first party game with marketing push management at the same time.
MS got a problematic game when they took Bethesda, yes. They choose to continue with it. They choose to market it. They choose to delay it. And they choose to give it to us in the state that it is now. It was a shitty situation that did not go better. MS got difficult choices that were bad no matter what. But they are a console manufacturer, and as such they are compared to the best of the industry.
When Rockstar were publishing LA noire, they did as many delays as needed and send people to fix it when it was clear that the management at team bondi was the problem.8 years. And the game Agent( a supposed playstation exclusive for the ps3 I think) is MIA.
Sony delayed The Last guardian until it was ready. They jumped it from PS3 to PS4.Around 9 years of dev. And they cancelled a Santa Monica game just before they did GOW.
Nintendo are working on Metroid Prime 4 since 2017. It changed studios at least once.
What is wrong in blaming Microsoft of not being at that level? Of delaying until success is found or scraping it?
The worse thing is, we had Phil explain why they did it that way, and each decision can be accepted by itself, but the sum of it is Redfall. And he took responsibility for it.