I've just been soul-crushingly disappointed with Google's execution over the last few years, particularly the outright degradation of so many products (Gmail) or just not keeping up with competition (Hangouts is garbage compared to Zoom, Sheets still is barely usable, etc), or just screwing over users by deactivating features (I used to be able to play a youtube video's audio over my Google Home speaker, but they long ago removed that ability and I can only play Youtube music now).
All of the above are just consumer rants, but let's not forget how frighteningly bad the Customer Support or support in general is for G Cloud. I WANT to get off of AWS, but these clowns at Alphabet have this amazing ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with anyone trying out GCloud.....
I hope Bard is great..... I want it to be.... but I'm not confident it will be.
Did they? Where can I use it?
And I'm certain that however much Google historically stressed that OKRs aren't tied to performance reviews, there's a lot of fear that deviating from OKRs could trigger one being on the top of the list for the next round of layoffs. So there are definitely headwinds that could stifle experimentation and innovation in such a brave new world. For Google's sake I hope that top leadership is redoubling its efforts to get buy-in up and down the management chain for redesigning structures to allow innovation to take place.