That should be very strong quotation marks. I would say that it is the other way around. We should be glad that not everything is immediately turned into a product.
Bingo. Getting it into production is a non-concern for non-entities with no reputation, but Google has a lot more to lose. The big guys watch and wait, and use their sizeable wallets when the time comes. I have no doubts that Apple is going to eat Meta's lunch soon, for example — a lunch Meta didn't even realize was there, for all their innovation and go-to-market.
Google puts all kinds of things into production, then takes them down again in a year. The reputation is already that google puts out experiments
They are terrified of another “people labeled as gorillas” incident. Not of later canceling the product, they don’t care about that.