This is also because in Google you tend to get more easily promoted once you launch a new product, than when you do maintenance. So the most logical course at

This is also because in Google you tend to get more easily promoted once you launch a new product, than when you do maintenance. So the most logical course at this stage, based on typical politics at Google, would be to shutdown Bard, and launch a new product instead (like what has happened with all the messengers / social network apps)