I'm betting more on "replaced". E.g. When they switched to Webkit, they didn't opensource Trident.
How many people would notice, if the next version of windows used CUPS running on the WSL2 backend with a nice small GUI in Windows-Land?
The very informative comments from @zinekeller and @ChrisSD highlight the problems with opensourcing mixed-vendor heterogeneous code bases.
Also open-sourcing code rarely means it becomes "maintenance-free".
I think you're right in that the road to MS open-sourcing Windows will be slowly starting to adopt other existing subsystems (and hopefully giving back) so that they are managing less and less proprietary code over time.