[seanp2k2]

Just hilarious how Google is so celebrated for Material Design (yes because everything, including desktop apps, should be touch-optimized) when their actual product design is hot garbage, like most of their products. GMail won because it was better than Hotmail. That…wasn’t a very high bar. It’s still damn hard to find any given setting for a Google thing, and some have bizarre limitations (e.g. I cannot in any way show my work GCal on my Google Home Pro Plus Max display that I got for free at CES, because apparently Google Apps business accounts are wholly incompatible with “home” products that can only work with personal, non-Google-apps accounts). Most of their products just die a slow, unfounded death. Their public APIs are a nightmare to work with, sporadically documented, and have clients that either don’t work with my version of Python, have wack 80-deep dependency chains (because they were developed, err auto-generated by a Java engineer) and all the developer ergonomics of a St. Andrew's Cross.

Google doesn’t make good products anymore, and they destroy all the value in any company they acquire and actually try to do anything with.