Active Directory isn't going away. Your group policy setup might be as brittle as COBOL
A Reddit thread on r/activedirectory asking whether Active Directory is going away pulled in loads of comments, and the most upvoted answer compared AD to COBOL: still running, still critical, still not going anywhere. That comparison holds up when you check whether COBOL is still used today, since it runs core banking and government systems decades after its supposed retirement. The real risk for most IT teams isn't AD disappearing.