[tehlike]

Agree with this take.

People always assume some ulterior motive to every single decision google does, but things are often much simpler than that, and mostly all it comes to prioritization...

[brandensilva]

I hear ya but who sets the priorities? Management typically right? So if they don't see value in RSS and move their KPIs it will never be implemented.

And well profit motives push managements decisions so it's no wonder it never got prioritized. Nothing nefarious about it. RSS makes Google no money.

[tehlike]

At the team level? Eng lead, pm lead, someone who cares about a problem.

[jimmySixDOF]

Hanlon's Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which can easily be explained by stupidity.

[appplication]

Or the corporate corollary: never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by a more profitable allocation of resources.

[billbrown]

Or Brown's Corollary of Apathy: Never ascribe to stupidity what can be explained by DGAF.