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Exchange is complex enough that you need a team of people to maintain it.
It’s also exposed to the internet and to end users in such a way that makes it a security target.
Keeping up with it is/was difficult, and the cost to have Microsoft do it is pretty cheap all things considered.
Every once in a while a competitor shows up but really the last competitor was groupwise.