[toomuchtodo]

Could Google not commit to open sourcing projects in a maintainable way (public repos, k8s support versus just Borg, which no one has access to) and guarantee data export functionality as part of Takeout? This would significantly derisk attempting to use a fledgling Google service for end users.

Definitely not a resourcing issue, entirely an organizational culture and philosophy decision to be made.

[pc86]

I don't work at Google but my understanding is there are a lot of proprietary, closed-source internal APIs that make this difficult-bordering-impossible.

[InitialLastName]

Yes, Google wouldn't want anyone seeing exactly how thoroughly everything hooks into their data collection and ad targeting systems.