Creator here. My intent to keep things minimal is often criticized, but when you visit a graveyard you don't often go looking for the names of successors, the r

Creator here. My intent to keep things minimal is often criticized, but when you visit a graveyard you don't often go looking for the names of successors, the reason they died, or if someone 'Frankensteined' them into an alternate existence. Graveyards are for everyone, and the story they tell is very subjective to the visitor. CEOs may find a sense of caution about adopting a new, non-core Google product, or they may feel emboldened to make a decision to cut a large product in order to focus on something else. Entrepreneurs may find inspiration for a brand new product, or inspiration to build a similar-but-better product. Academics and journalists may use it to track the history of products. Users? Users will go, scroll down the list, find a product they haven't thought about in years, and have fond memories of all the cool stuff they did with it. As far as rebrands and cherry-picked feature migrations? An organ donor whose heart is harvested and placed in another person's body doesn't keep living. From a user's perspective, the difference in emotional connection to Nexus vs Pixel can be HUGE. Why shouldn't they have a place to mourn that? Finally, you link to a comment that attempts to provide reason for why things are killed, but that information is really proprietary. Google's usual move is a vague excuse like "focusing our resources" which is PR speak for not enough users...or maybe it means we couldn't monetize it...or maybe it means that the market didn't respond as we expected...or maybe it means...there was some internal politics afloat. --- I feel that speculating--even incorrectly--would be more dishonest than not speculating on the reasoning at all. So, I don't feel the site is dishonest. Providing enough context in that "these things before you are dead products" is its entire point, and the user's perspective and takeaway is left up to them to discover.