"Data-driven" the way FAANG does it is just design by committee at scale. It will always converge to the blandest design. No one will have an opinion about it.

"Data-driven" the way FAANG does it is just design by committee at scale. It will always converge to the blandest design. No one will have an opinion about it. The flip side to that, at FAANG, is "look, we put the start button in the middle! Eh? Eh?" which I'm sure went through traditional design by committee.