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I kinda doubt it. That is such an insignificant amount of money to Microsoft, I doubt they'd do it for that reason. It probably has something to do with conforming to regulations or something random.
What regulations say you have to basically steal someone's access to a game they paid for?
There are many regulations in place that have to do with privacy, terms of service etc. When you made a Mojang account you never agreed to Microsoft's terms of service. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were other issues as well related to just merging accounts from different companies, it's not that simple.
If I remember correctly I think Luke and Linus (from LTT) talked about how they had a lot of issues with migrating forum subscribers to Floatplane and how it wasn't really possible to do it without direct user consent or something. I don't really remember the details, it was many years ago.
They didn't steal anything. They gave you 3 years to upgrade for free.
If you didn't do it in time then that is on you. They send reminders in every way they could.
"upgrade"
And they are taking it away. If they didn't have the EULA which I believe they had to change to make it possible (or they changed it for another reason) it would be theft.
You know how many people change their email addresses or stop using them in a few years time?
This is stealing, people paid for a product and it was removed from their access. I don't know how much clearer that can be.