Agree with most of the points but I mean people want to work for google is also due to their tech and innovation. Look at the products that has come out if google !
Are you being sarcastic? Most projects get abandoned by the developers, or get canceled within 18 months. Search is good, maps is good. Everything else isn't industry leading or is just involuntary data collection (i.e. Android)
There are thousands of internal projects that are never cancelled and are very innovative. Serving queries at Google scale in Google times involves massive amounts of custom hardware, custom infrastructure, reliability engineering and many other things.
Many projects are cancelled, and I hate that, but that isn't really what life is like on the inside.
