Figuring out what is useful for people is not some difficult problem that requires shipping half baked slop. That's just an excuse.

This is analagous to the problem of premature optimization - if you try to optimize performance without benchmarking, you end up eating a lot of time and effort on things that don't matter. Likewise for product: it is very easy to solve the wrong problems.

ridiculous.

> Figuring out what is useful for people is not some difficult problem that requires shipping half baked slop

what have you shipped? paying sees literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to ship out fledged out software that no one wants is exactly why Stadia lasted both way too long and got cancelled anyway.

figuring out what is useful is the hardest problem. if anything that's Google's biggest problem, not shipping fast enough, not iterating fast enough.