This reminds me of early Google+ and the wealth of information there on several of Google's long bets such as Glass, Waymo (then Google Self Driving), constantl

This reminds me of early Google+ and the wealth of information there on several of Google's long bets such as Glass, Waymo (then Google Self Driving), constantly seeing insightful posts from the engineers working on these moonshots. And just like it was all gone. There isn't a metric to quantify the novelty of a service, but I genuinely felt like we burnt one the last resources on product/engineering/building/hacking when Google decided to pull the plug on that. This article highlights that fact too.