[canadianfella]

> If you have a successful popular product (firebase) and a not particularly successful or well loved product (GCP), does mixing A into B make sense?

Firebase is more successful than GCP? In what way?

> Betty had a bit of butter, but the butter was bitter, so she mixed the bitter butter with the better butter to make the bitter butter better but it made the better butter bitter…

?

[nvrspyx]

GCP is the bitter butter and Firebase is the better butter. Mixing GCP with Firebase is making Firebase worse.

At least, that's how I understood the nursery rhyme in the context of the parent comment.

[flutas]

> > Betty had a bit of butter, but the butter was bitter, so she mixed the bitter butter with the better butter to make the bitter butter better but it made the better butter bitter…

> ?

They are saying that taking a good thing and combining it with a bad thing, doesn't make the bad thing good. It makes the good thing bad.

I have no "dog in this fight" (side note, any better phrases to use there?) but just explaining what they tried to convey.