"I have seen many very large projects including Google owned projects get it wrong." As an ex-Googler I can tell you that this above statement can be more broa

"I have seen many very large projects including Google owned projects get it wrong." As an ex-Googler I can tell you that this above statement can be more broadly applied across _many_ developer facing Google products (most notably for me, Android frameworks and libraries). Google's apps don't use the guidance and recommendations we gave to external Android devs. I wonder if there is something cultural about Google not even being able to coordinate changes and improvements within the org itself.