I’m not convinced this works so great for Google. Some rewrites are very noticeable as a user, and things in the UI frequently shift around for no discernible r

I’m not convinced this works so great for Google. Some rewrites are very noticeable as a user, and things in the UI frequently shift around for no discernible reason. Perhaps worse, they seem unable to get below a certain level of bugginess in products like Google Maps and Gmail. Perhaps because a new round of rewrites always introduces new bugs before all of the old ones ever get fixed. Perhaps their metrics tell them that all of this is fine, I don’t know. But then, you have to realize Google has so much money they don’t really have to spend it very efficiently. The user experience ranges between good to mediocre to bad, depending. Google is simply too rich and powerful to care. So long as the goose keeps laying the golden eggs, they can just keep going along and patting themselves on the back.