I’m going way out on a limb here, ok maybe not, but this is what is known as a snub. Robert quit MS, now he doesn’t get MS freebies and they don’t speak nearly as high of him. Well duh. And he doesn’t say nice things about them nearly as consistantly. Stop the presses.
The real confusion is MS seems to have thought Robert truely loved them for what they were, and Robert seems to think they truely loved him for what he was. But alas there was money changing hands, and try as both sides may (or may not), you can’t be objective in that situation. Noble effort, but we’ll just have to let go of that fantasy now.