I don't want to be snarky, but there can totally be a non-technical outer context where all this was a very good strategic move. Certainly, one should not alwa

I don't want to be snarky, but there can totally be a non-technical outer context where all this was a very good strategic move. Certainly, one should not always assume dark Machiavellian moves, lest we become too bitter and cynical, but business isn't engineering. Read the book "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life" by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. If not for other reasons, to acquire a different set of mental tools to understand motivation. Because I feel like you seem technically proficient but lacking in imagination of more important games of power in the background. And these aren't Disney villain machinations, they are normal everyday things that people implicitly understand and participate in, while being perfectly ordinary, nice, polite people, no mustache-twirling villains. Eat or be eaten. Periscope was eaten, now they are being shat out.