I wonder if reliability has become less of a priority. As somebody with little to no experience of running things at scale I’m finding myself attributing this to some form of “move fast and break things”.
Often git operations were unaffected though.
If you’re trying to minimize impact to business customers you deploy Friday night.
That was the case when they were the small and hungry startup.
Meanwhile they've been acquired by a giant corporation with a less than stellar reputation for reliability or quality. So it's most likely a case actually of "move slow and break things".
That is unfair Minesweeper never crashed, and the printspooler is not up for debate here ;)