It's always fascinating to see. The business portions are much easier to solve for with an engineering mindset, but it seems to be a common issue that engineers

It's always fascinating to see. The business portions are much easier to solve for with an engineering mindset, but it seems to be a common issue that engineers never take it into account. This is saying nothing about "technologists" (or as they're starting to become derided as "wordcels": people that communicate well, but cannot execute anything themselves). It would be... not trivial, but straightforward to map out the finances on everything involved, and see if there is room from any standpoint (engineering, financial, product, etc.) to get queries to breakeven, or even profitable. But at that point, I believe the answer will be "no, it's not possible at the moment." So it becomes a game of stalling, and burning more money until R&D finds something new that may change that answer (a big if).