CRLF was the correct way to implement a new line the way we think of it now, because teletypes and typewriters considered the “return to the 0th column” and “go to the next line” to be different things that are each valid on their own.
CRLF was the standardized way to implement “go down one line and return to column zero” and they’re the only ones who implemented new lines correctly at the outset.
Blaming Microsoft now, because they like backwards compatibility above almost everything else, is misplaced and myopic.
Additionally it is also dishonest to bring Microsoft into the discussion like that. The discussion revolved around _standardized_ network protocols, which is entirely unrelated to MS-DOS text formats.
CRLF was the standardized way to implement “go down one line and return to column zero” and they’re the only ones who implemented new lines correctly at the outset.
Blaming Microsoft now, because they like backwards compatibility above almost everything else, is misplaced and myopic.