If everything works right now, then slowing feature-work down makes sense for products critical in the current situation (which is the case with ChromeOS for st

If everything works right now, then slowing feature-work down makes sense for products critical in the current situation (which is the case with ChromeOS for students doing school remotely, as you have described). Because imo the goal should be to keep things as stable as possible to avoid interruptions for people during critical periods and only issue hotfixes for bugs that break functionality and for security vulnerabilities. Feature-work could still be done in some capacity, but pushing it to customers in prod is too risky.