Google is a tools company. Their tool-like offerings are all (used to be) great. Search, GMail, Maps, Android. But their products are simply bad, because while

Google is a tools company. Their tool-like offerings are all (used to be) great. Search, GMail, Maps, Android. But their products are simply bad, because while they realized that they can't really offer the same generality (customizability, flexibility) as tool usually offer in concrete products (eg GCP, GMail Workspaces, AdWords, Play store), they failed at product-market fit. (Yes, I know the numbers say that everyone and their dog uses Android/Play, and Ads, but neither is exactly a healthy market. For example when it comes to cloud infrastructure GCP is struggling ... because Google simply doesn't understand that overarching branding is made and unmade exactly through these fucking "small" things, like a bad call to action dynamic visual component.) So probably the actual font is mighty fine...