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I can't speak to the reasoning for announcing before 100% rollout, but I can say that the slow rollout is for safety. That way if there's a severe bug, then we can catch it while it affects a small number of users, instead of all users.

Labs is more for experimental features that needs more beta testing before rolling out to everyone, rather than being the "first stage" of slow rollout.

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That doesn't contradict the parent comment though. Engaged users should have an option somewhere to enable it, barely affecting the overall rollout.

It’s not about gating the new feature behind a flight, but not wanting to push a new build out to the furthest deployment ring before you need to.

I wish we could opt-in to get early access in the slow rollout. That way you get the enthousiastic users to promote the incoming feature and you get some tech savvy people to test it before it reaches out more people.

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