Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021
I thought they would give some meaningless response and people prodding them for a real reason would get the truth out eventually. But no, they just come out and say it in their first response:
Thanks for the contribution here and appreciate your attention to detail. We have decided to keep as-is… part of that decision is that more and more folks are using AI chat to access guidance and tables don’t always translate well in that context.
I thought they would give some meaningless response and people prodding them for a real reason would get the truth out eventually. But no, they just come out and say it in their first response: