I usually jump right on board when Google engineers build something new. I must be some kind of masochist. Is there any internal understanding that these head

I usually jump right on board when Google engineers build something new. I must be some kind of masochist. Is there any internal understanding that these head fakes are punishing to fans? Me and my friends were the ones that used plus. And buzz. And wave. Now we're terrified to buy anything on the Play store. I'm arguably a fanboy and even I am starting to worry that humanity might be better off if all the talent at Google was out from under their direct control. If only all the project teams at Google were free agents or in startups where the baseline comparison wasn't constantly asking if their product was as lucrative as advertising... Be Bell Labs and dump your enormous profits into fundamental research with no expectation of return. Or be Softbank and just incubate the world. But paying a bunch of talented engineers to build and maintain things you will kill seems cruel to the engineers, the customers, and maybe even humanity. We already had Signal, et al. We could have used these cycles for other things.