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I'm not saying the microphone was ignored or forgotten about, I'm saying the "add that line to the specification sheet for public release" was forgotten about.

I work in Google and my org of over a hundred engineers has a single tech writer assigned. I assure you she never sees the bottom of her backlog.

This is so common in so many companies I've worked with that it doesn't even begin to surprise me. This is an accepted way of life at most tech companies.

Sure, that seems plausible. If the existence of the microphone wasn't a secret internally, why would PM or devs or QA or government inspectors be disturbed to see it?