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Google, stop fucking with your own shit.
I've heard it's because creating/reforming things rather than maintaining them is more valued at Google with their current company culture.
A friend who worked at Meta said pretty concisely, "You get rewarded for coming up with something new, not improving something old."
Proving once again that it's usually management that tanks a company.... Yet they get the golden parachutes
That would make sense why there's more features than there used to be, but it's just worse in every way. Same as Google, Reddit, Microsoft, etc...
Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn't always used to be like that.
It's pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they'll kill it soon!
Their company culture sounds like shit. They should be more like Valve. Make a great thing and then forget it exists until it sucks just because it's too old.
This is America in general.
Google: "Thanks for your feedback, we hear you loud in clear. In response, we've launched 5 new messenger apps (only 3 available in your region), changed the names and branding of 3 other messengers, and completely discontinued 8 other messenger apps. We hope you enjoy playing our little game of Three Card Monty trying to figure out which messenger actually works now."
My favorite thing about this is I was using Hangouts for SMS messaging for like two years after they said they'd stop supporting it. I don't know if I just got lucky and someone forgot to turn off a server somewhere or what, but even their inconsistency is inconsistent.