This isn't my local pizza shop, Google engineers should know better. Have they already forgotten the dumb "best viewed in IE" banners that magically vanished as

This isn't my local pizza shop, Google engineers should know better. Have they already forgotten the dumb "best viewed in IE" banners that magically vanished as soon as the user-agent changed? Google engineers are now subject to the same forces that IE engineers faced in the IE 6 days. This also includes competition with other browsers and the desire to keep a leading position, which also includes legitimate concerns over latency and reliability. There's also the difficulty of understanding the end user experience from within a large company. The story isn't simple and one sided. It's the mess of plans hitting reality. it's just unreliable and error-prone over the long term, and hurts the overall web browser ecosystem. Power corrupts because it's hard to see one's own small abuses of power, and these form escalating habits over time. A goal like "Don't be Evil" doesn't fall to a single mustache twirling guy in a black hat and cape. It gets sandblasted by a million little things over time.