[dougmwne]

It is most definitely not just you. The disconnect between the team that created this product and the YouTube TV/Android TV/Stadia/Google Home teams just shows that the leadership at Google must be extremely poor. I don't blame the engineers and product managers for making a siloed product. It probably a fine product on it's own. But the failure to connect the dots and capitalize on the synergies across the org speaks to a big executive failure. What could have been a big push for monthly recurring revenue through both YouTube TV and Stadia with enticing package deals is instead just a $50 gadget. Why does Google even bother with consumer products and subscriptions any more? The only thing I can think of is these tiny projects in disparate areas are just there to supply panel data they can feed into their ad profile algos, just enough data to be statistically significant and only ever popular by accident.