Google's incentive and performance review systems reward shipping and don't reward finishing or maintaining. That's a root cause of many bad/rotting Google prod

Google's incentive and performance review systems reward shipping and don't reward finishing or maintaining. That's a root cause of many bad/rotting Google products (though hardly the only one). For things involving open source or standards processes, it's really transparent when this has happened - Web Audio is the most notable one I've had the misfortune of interacting with, but there are some other cases where a pet project or prototype was kicked out the door and handed off to someone else (or no one).