Google had (or still has) perverse incentives. No incentive to do the boring work of maintaining and improving existing products. Lots of incentive to create

Google had (or still has) perverse incentives. No incentive to do the boring work of maintaining and improving existing products. Lots of incentive to create new things -- even if they overlap functionality of existing things -- which then must be phased out to make room for the awkward new things. Even if everyone preferred the old things.