As an employee on another team, I remember at launch when the extended Plus team got flown to Hawaii to celebrate, around the time their marketing made its way

As an employee on another team, I remember at launch when the extended Plus team got flown to Hawaii to celebrate, around the time their marketing made its way on to the homepage. I sat incredulous, back in the office with my colleagues thinking how gross it was that an obvious failure from the off got rewarded and supported in such a manner. It marked a real shift in my personal perspective of the company. I realised much later that the team were effectively being rewarded for having being punished prior to launch. The offsite was an apology for the grotesque demands put on them during the extended crunch. The commitment to the product was so complete that nobody involved could see the wood for the trees, and we saw the damaging impact of reality distortion first hand.