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My theory is that they test this on their 10 Gbit company network, and high-end laptops, and it works great. So it's hard to convince anyone that it's a problem.

In the office we are strongly encouraged to try our stuff with the WiFi network degraded to perform like EDGE (apparently nobody cares about GPRS any more). Obviously that hasn't been exercised much since last spring.

Most Google offices have multiple wifi networks for simulating different kinds of degraded connectivity.

I'm not sure its reasonable to jump from "Google Translate has a jump' to "Google has stopped caring about UI performance"

As I say, compare Google Groups today to Google Groups 10 years ago. Or gmail. Or Calendar. Though Groups is possibly the best example, as it went, more or less overnight, from one of Google's snappiest properties to about its most sluggish.

Google used to be very concerned about UI performance, but they seem to have totally lost interest in it.

Priority is the ads display performance; search or news are just an addition to the actual business.

or Gmail for the last 10 years