Comment by pkasting

The resource constraints had nothing to do with intentionally not funding "support a competing browser properly", though, and everything to do with just not funding engineering and test work at all except to build Shiny Idea That Got A Promo.

Despite its size, Google does shoestring engineering of most things, which is why so much is deprecated over time -- there's never budget for maintenance.

So I mean in some sense yes, there's valid criticism of Google's "will" here, but that will was largely unaware of Firefox, and the consequences burned Google products and customers just as much or more in the long run. Nightingale looked past individual instances to see a pattern, but didn't continue to scale the pattern up to first-party products as well.