The Xbox series S conundrum is going to haunt Xbox this whole generation.
What do you do if you're in Xbox's position?
1. Allow developers to skip the Series S, your top selling console and piss off your already tiny base (tiny compared to Nintendo & PlayStation) because this potato is holding back 1st party and 3rd party games on their consoles.
2. or cater to the even smaller hardcore gamers who purchased the more powerful Series X because they wanted 12 Tera-flop, ate monsters for breakfast, world's most powerful console, RDNA, Direct X storage, etc all the B.S were were spewing to look better than PlayStation.
This is more proof that Phil Spencer is a grade A idiot. He didn't even think this would happen. His foresight as a leader is below the earth's core levels.