It’s really true. They make a lot of decisions on a set of design principle that don’t even make sense to me; why Google Chat/Hangouts/Meet don’t have a proper desktop client is beyond my comprehension, for example. Google is just allergic to the idea, even when it’s an option many users (possibly most users) want to use. Their products consistently feel under-powered and feature-poor to me. There’s benefit to keeping things lean & mean & lightweight, and I won’t say otherwise, but they never feel more than what you get when you assign some college seniors in a comp sci program a final project of “build an app that’s like X, you have 10 weeks, form groups of 4, you will be graded as a team” rather than an application that a company with a market cap of roughly $1.75 trillion can produce. I really feel like they don’t care, they know the name Google and free price tag will be enough to get people using it.

J.Ja