is more a perfect storm of big-company policy decisions Naming storms like this is about rare they are. A "10 year storm" or "100 year storm" only happen once

is more a perfect storm of big-company policy decisions Naming storms like this is about rare they are. A "10 year storm" or "100 year storm" only happen once in that period. So they refer to a 10% or 1% chance that an X-year storm that would happen in any given year. Is this cock-up is so bad that you don't expect a Google company to make a similar or more severe cock-up for DECADES? Then it's not a perfect storm. This was a common storm. In fact, I'm very doubtful it was as a "storm" inside of google at all. This is just another "whoopsie" bug fix, isn't it? This right here is why people get the impression google thinks it's farts don't stink. Not only that you act as if this is a "perfect storm" but the arrogance it takes to design a system where just because an engineer didn't consider a use case, you're perfectly happy to assume it must be abuse. Yes, this case will probably be fixed, but would it have been if it didn't pop up on the right back channels to get Googlers attention?