Stadia is a throwaway project, far smaller than e.g. Google+ and in a risk-averse market of gamers who don't want to buy bricks and game studios who don't want

Stadia is a throwaway project, far smaller than e.g. Google+ and in a risk-averse market of gamers who don't want to buy bricks and game studios who don't want to invest in a dead Platform (except as a token of friendliness, or maybe of protection racket, to Google).