[paganel]

> I suspect you are mentally constructing a zero sum situation where there is not one.

Generally speaking companies do have limited economic resources and also generally speaking yes, there is "a zero sum situation" when it comes to allocating resources inside a specific company. The management doesn't generally have infinite time and resources at its disposal and a focus on the technical side of things (or on any other specific side of a particular business) has many times resulted in neglecting the rest of the business not related to that particular topic.

A very good such example is the same Google+ case, with the now famous motto "all arrows pointed in the same direction" or some such which imho made them lose focus on a ton of other important stuff going on at the same time (Amazon and aws, most of the google products have become a chore to use since then etc)

[AlexB138]

I'm struggling to see your point. A company at a size that I assume reddit is is going to have dedicated infrastructure engineers and dedicated UI/UX/design people. They are almost definitely separate groups, regardless of the fact that they're paid from the same overall company budget, and will have separate projects. Infrastructure engineers working on infrastructure has no impact on UI engineers working on UI, unless perhaps they have Infrastructure engineers work on UI in their down time. Perhaps that is the case though and that's why everyone is so unhappy with the UI?

[paganel]

Google is a lot larger than Reddit is but it nevertheless blew it by focusing on mainly one thing, Google+. I’m saying that instead of focusing on this tech reorg which seems kind of overkill (at least from an user’s perspective) they could have given more time to focusing on the redesign, because at this point the redesign looks like it has received no significant input from management at all, it’s a total disaster.