> I think that's quite an uncharitable interpretation of what's happening - Google doesn't really have bad intentions here imho... OP didn't talk at all about

> I think that's quite an uncharitable interpretation of what's happening - Google doesn't really have bad intentions here imho... OP didn't talk at all about intentions. OP talked about results. > ...but with every tool you suffer from a conflict of goals: Sure. But it seems to me that OP notices that Google's really, really bad at choosing the "Make it so that people who aren't working in a megacorp who can afford teams of dedicated tool wranglers can easily use the tool and interoperate with others who use the tool." option when presented with it. And like, why would they ever choose that? They have zero need to, because they are a megacorp who can (and do) hire teams of dedicated tool wranglers.