There is a middle ground, however, between Amazon's "let's pile on more stuff until it's incomprehensible" and Google's "ah let's just kill the whole thing".
The latter will really get your customers torqued, the former is going to make some customers not get exactly what they want.
Maybe in the early days this would have made sense, but the cloud vendor lock in is so strong that I seriously doubt most customers even have the leverage. "Add this feature or we are walking to Linode"?
I don't think so. It just seems like a broken product design culture, where the managers need to add features non-stop, so they can make some slides and get their raises. Big company problems, to be sure, but still disfunctional.
The latter will really get your customers torqued, the former is going to make some customers not get exactly what they want.
Maybe in the early days this would have made sense, but the cloud vendor lock in is so strong that I seriously doubt most customers even have the leverage. "Add this feature or we are walking to Linode"?
I don't think so. It just seems like a broken product design culture, where the managers need to add features non-stop, so they can make some slides and get their raises. Big company problems, to be sure, but still disfunctional.