There’s a point that hasn’t been much raised in the other threads because of its obviousness: they’re the wildly dominant search engine, paying ungodly amounts of money to stay so, and forcing itself wherever it can (remember the lawsuits around the search bar in android…)
For them to decide some portion of users are not worth the hassle and should have a degraded experience, because overall it serves Google better (revenue ? engagement ?) doesn’t make them ‘right’ in my book. Feels more like ‘assholes’.
If your argument was that for a vast majority of user the current behavior might be better, so as a whole it is the “right” choice, this has a taste of trolley problem. Except there’s more than two paths here, and having settings that work properly would make everyone happy for instance. It’s not hubris to say that Google isn’t delivering on that part, making the overall situation “wrong”.
For them to decide some portion of users are not worth the hassle and should have a degraded experience, because overall it serves Google better (revenue ? engagement ?) doesn’t make them ‘right’ in my book. Feels more like ‘assholes’.
If your argument was that for a vast majority of user the current behavior might be better, so as a whole it is the “right” choice, this has a taste of trolley problem. Except there’s more than two paths here, and having settings that work properly would make everyone happy for instance. It’s not hubris to say that Google isn’t delivering on that part, making the overall situation “wrong”.