> Slack was the clear leader in at-work group messaging, people thought it was a run away success and then Teams basically obliterated it. Google has huge scale distribution on all levels. When the time comes they'll put out the right product and it will scale to millions upon millions of users within a very short time span. The quality of the experience will also be vastly superior.

That is certainly what happened for Google Plus – who even remembers Facebook now?

Google hasn’t shipped a big success since the 2000s, with G+ and the Reader shutdown marking the end of the period when they built things which were good for users rather than what their executives wanted to sell ads. It’s possible that this could be the big reversal but given how much worse search has become I’m skeptical that they can do so without different managers at ggd top.