[Shorel]

It is both things of course, to different people.

It is something fun to do for the coders who implemented the animated ships, and most of the people who see them.

Likewise, it is a calculated PR stunt by the executives who approved the release.

[ithkuil]

Or even better: a calculated decision to create a culture where people who are not executives can approve a release that ultimately functions as a PR stunt, without requiring everyone involved to necessarily see it that way. It scales much better

[DoreenMichele]

Every last one of us is a potential bad actor. This is why the enlightened self interest metric was such a big deal to introduce and why we have myriad traditions for trying to curb our tendencies, such as the Christian idea of "Lead me not into temptation."

Finding systems to plug individuals into that have some hope of doing good for both them and others is our only hope of making a world with nearly 8 billion people function at all sanely.

[sixothree]

I have a difficult time believing this didn't go through multiple layers of review.

[ithkuil]

I bet it did (as any change to production); whether that had to involve "executives" that's another story.