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

  • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    261 month ago

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

    • @triptrapper@lemmy.world
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      221 month ago

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

      • @exanime
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        81 month ago

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

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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        31 month ago

        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…

    • 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.

    • @cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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      81 month ago

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