It's laughably common that Googlers don't know about a product that they themselves would be interested in using until they see external news about the product

It's laughably common that Googlers don't know about a product that they themselves would be interested in using until they see external news about the product being cancelled. It's pretty demoralizing. We are the biggest evangelists for the products because we are proud of our co-workers and Google. But it gets harder and harder to evangelize to our friends and family when things are so quickly withdrawn. Hopefully the Spaces team got their promotions out of the launch. My advice to people making these kinds of decisions at any company of any size: when sunsetting a project (not just putting it into maintenance mode) consider the real cost to internal morale and to brand equity.