I'd add my general impression is that all the good designers that were at Google are gone, looking across their portfolio

Take even the Gemini Web App... what set Google apart in the early days? Search was just an input box, no clutter or calls to action. They have recently decided to break from this (they did have it clean beforehand) and try to get me to use image generation and other calls to action. Please get rid of the slop before I can even make my own slop!

and don't egg me on about Google Cloud... it's speed now feels like Jira, which to many people's surprise has changed course and is quite fast now