Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

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      I’ve heard it’s because creating/reforming things rather than maintaining them is more valued at Google with their current company culture.

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        A friend who worked at Meta said pretty concisely, “You get rewarded for coming up with something new, not improving something old.”

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          Proving once again that it’s usually management that tanks a company… Yet they get the golden parachutes

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          That would make sense why there’s more features than there used to be, but it’s just worse in every way. Same as Google, Reddit, Microsoft, etc…

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        Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn’t always used to be like that.

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        It’s pretty common across most orgs really. Google just seems to have perfected it. Which might actually mean they’ll kill it soon!

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      Google: “Thanks for your feedback, we hear you loud in clear. In response, we’ve launched 5 new messenger apps (only 3 available in your region), changed the names and branding of 3 other messengers, and completely discontinued 8 other messenger apps. We hope you enjoy playing our little game of Three Card Monty trying to figure out which messenger actually works now.”

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        My favorite thing about this is I was using Hangouts for SMS messaging for like two years after they said they’d stop supporting it. I don’t know if I just got lucky and someone forgot to turn off a server somewhere or what, but even their inconsistency is inconsistent.