Of course it was. They didn’t have any competitive storefront to actually move the user base to another platform. I think it just shrunk it. Not even a migration path for all friends you had.
Won't stop them from moving everything exclusively to Microsoft Store once they have everything Activision Blizzard, Bethesda (including Arcane and id), Halo, and Minecraft under their roof. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist who tries the same old tactics over and over again.