This is a guess, but I reckon Alphabet has a little over 50,000 members of engineering staff (135,000 total, roughly 40% engineers). Suggesting that one or two

This is a guess, but I reckon Alphabet has a little over 50,000 members of engineering staff (135,000 total, roughly 40% engineers). Suggesting that one or two of them wouldn't want to be involved in a core Google product that's been running for about 20 years is so strange to me.