Comment by rhizome

Google should claw back bonuses and promotions involved in creating these services that get assassinated, to get people thinking more long-term. While I intensely dislike Google's product management, I feel like there might be a point in their favor that these developers or teams who are driven to only launch new stuff instead of maintaining and enhancing the old stuff are creating CS nightmares that can't be refactored, can't be extended, and the original developers may not even be found there anymore. In other words, to be fair to Google, this may be a problem of their own incentives.