Google products experience a self-fullfilling prophecy of not getting serious effort put into them because everyone expects Google to kill it in 16 months, so i

Google products experience a self-fullfilling prophecy of not getting serious effort put into them because everyone expects Google to kill it in 16 months, so it never takes off with users, so Google cuts the project. The really goats part is that the engagement levels that Google considers to be "crap" would make any SV startup a darling Unicorn in their next funding round. But compared to making money hand over fist on click-fraud-plagued ads, it just can't compete.