It is notable that in the mid-80s, Microsoft was not a hardware company, nor did they have the clout to introduce standards. As you note, IBM introduced standards back then, and as soon as there was an accelerator to support, they supported accelerators. It wasn't sour grapes, it was working with the platform they had. "The platform we're on doesn't have this hardware, so we can't support things that don't exist" is not the same as "we can't do this so you don't need it", it is just... physical reality.
No one blames early Mac software developers for only supporting black&white graphics, because it is understood that Macintoshes of the era didn't have color, or even grayscale, graphics. No one blames Spectrum games for being warmed-over turds because it is understood that the Spectrum was barely-functional garbage-tier hardware(and now I've started a war with the UK... whoops). But somehow, Microsoft not doing things that weren't possible on the IBM platform is because Microsoft lacked vision.
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