Google,(or Alphabet) from my perspective,has lost the plot. I used to view the company as a place where world-changing technologies got developed, where smart

Google,(or Alphabet) from my perspective,has lost the plot. I used to view the company as a place where world-changing technologies got developed, where smart engineers could get to work on the future without beancounters looking over their shoulders fretting over beans, and where the acquisition of a company meant it would finally get to grow and develop, instead of being expected to be a money-maker from day one. Now Google is the company where technology goes to die. It's a place where once promising projects get scrapped without warning. Or get neglected to the point of irrelevance. And why? To focus on ads!? Isn't that a dying industry? Is Google in financial trouble? Why not just stop pretending to be a center of technological progress(and stop acquiring promising startups to kill off)? Is Deepmind next? How much beans do they generate? Why not simply get a business development team to go and market some of those incredibly promising projects instead? I guess that's why Elon doesn't want the Wall Street gangs making decisions on SpaceX. Mini-rant over. As you were.