[marto1]

And why would they do any of that ?

It doesn't pay to be creative or engineer driven when you're a monopoly. The ones that make the big bucks are sales and marketing.

The other factor is cash reserves[1]. They can make 1000s of mistakes like this without any significant damage to their cash flow. Also assuming they are mistakes which we don't know, because we don't know their strategy.

Finally, if you think the leaders don't know about this trend and/or killedbygoogle you're kind of naive. Actually with the amount of data they have there is a pretty high chance they can easily learn everything about you way before you can learn everything about them.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20749831/alphabet-google-a...