In that case can I please have my 1st gen Nest Hub back on the pre-Fuchsia OS please? Ever since the "upgrade" it's been more laggy and requires semi-regular power cycles, as if there's a memory leak somewhere.
So of course a few moments later it was insisted that the whole thing had to be rewritten in Flutter/Dart. Because reasons.
But of course Flutter didn't exist for the platform. So that had to get written too.
Which also meant somehow writing things like screen reader, and other accessibility features, which are services provided normally by the OS for other platforms (Android, iOS) that Flutter ran on. And which we had just finished porting to Cast OS from Chrome OS.
And of course they insisted that because, I dunno, Flutter was native or something it would just be faster than that dodgy HTML stuff. Nevermind that thousands and thousands of engineering hours have gone into the Chromium graphics stack, and my coworkers had made it perform very well on the little old outdated cheap SoC in the thing...
And while this was all happening, simultaneously people were working off in Fuchsia land with seemingly unlimited headcount, hoisting the whole thing into Fuchsia. And claiming they'd be done any minute now. But then, of course, late for multiple years.
All along the Cast OS team was deprived of product roadmap or headcount, to maintain the existing thing... which we had shipped into customers homes successfully and gotten excellent reviews.
Anyways, I wasn't central to this or anything, most ephemeral. But ephemerally flabbergated and frustrated.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the earlier experience :-)