It's very strange how lately new Google product launches always seem to be gated behind waitlists or slow incremental rollouts. Back in the Gmail days that happ

It's very strange how lately new Google product launches always seem to be gated behind waitlists or slow incremental rollouts. Back in the Gmail days that happened for genuine reasons like very real machine capacity constraints, the explosive popularity of the product and so on. But these days Google has so much machine capacity they sell it to other people, and an experimental IDE isn't the sort of thing that's going to experience explosive consumer-scale growth. Presumably the waitlist is for product management reasons but it's an odd choice. Usually products get a spike of interest when first launched which then rapidly evaporates (see Threads, but also e.g. Chrome and Wave had the same issue), and so it's not a good idea to waste that first surge of interest.