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See advael's remark above ours on short-termisim. In the commercial digital world, wear vibration and fragility are not the enemy - other companies are.

Until we can move past that silly winner-takes-all incentive we can't have nice things. Most of the genuinely good stuff will be stillborn. We'll always have a 5% vying for perfection in an ever-escaping, unrealistic red queens race, while the bottom 95% suffer a dearth of simply good-enough. How many objectively better search engines than Google died in the ditch of obscurity between 1998 and 2020?