Modern Microsoft has actually been pretty great to its subsidiary companies. Like when you look into what happened to Mixer, sure the handling of its death was horrid, but the company pretty much caused its own self destruction, and MS were pretty hands off on it. I think Discord being bought by MS would be a better ordeal than them going public. I would much rather them try to please modern Microsoft than try to please investors and pass off those strategies into more paywalling of the app. I honestly hate when companies go public, it kills their consumer friendly nature.