[josteink]

It may be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when every web-based product google made seemed like amazing, fluid pixie-dust magic compared to the competition.

Things I can remember being absolutely revolutionary when new:

- Gmail

- Google maps

- Google docs

At the time, this quality and sophistication of engineering was simply unheard of for web-based products.

Now they’re all slow, laggy, terrible resource hogs with ugly, non-intuitive UI on top. Worse in almost every way.

They’ve clearly lost their edge.