[CatWChainsaw]

Money. The answer is always money.

[TaylorAlexander]

I can understand on a micro level why managers might want to release a product in order to get bonuses or something, which we see at google all the time. But these things are happening at the macro level (coming as major moves from the top) and it’s not clear that these moves are even sensible from a profit perspective.

[CatWChainsaw]

There's money to be made -right now-, which is the only time that matters to the financial industry.

There's also an arms race with China that we need to win.

There's also the delighting in the hubris of ruining everything in such a uniquely human way that appeals to certain people.