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Feels like this field has become a lot about doing the easy, visible parts, getting a month of attention, maybe a promotion, then moving on to the next "new project".

Meanwhile, the people who stay behind and actually make these half-finished apps work properly, maintain them and deal with all the boring problems rarely get the same credit or benefits.



Then let the app die on the vine for a while and ultimately abandon it a couple years later.


Google is notorious for prioritizing new features and new apps for promotion, so yes.




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