God, yea. I've flipped between R&D and product development a few times in my career, sometimes at the same company, and it's a really rough transition even for

God, yea. I've flipped between R&D and product development a few times in my career, sometimes at the same company, and it's a really rough transition even for an individual experienced in both. I can't imagine trying to flip a whole research team to make products is going to go well, especially when the products are getting a ton of well-deserved bad press and a lot of those researchers were coming from academia rather than elsewhere in industry in the first place