Ceci n'est pas une pipe. The features are exciting. Google I/O, the conference with talks, is seen as less so. Notice how all the comments are about the talks. Yesterday's Apple announcement was _not_ a conference, and the comment thread was about the new app. It's not the same thing at all.

Here are some snippets from top-level comments in this discussion thread.

> It's all business talk

> I for one benefited so much from Google Developer Groups

> looking forward to the event and plan to watch it

> just corporate talk

> alternate conference

> separate conference

> I can understand now why my company is less eager to send developers to events

You see it, right? They're all about the talks at the conference and not the features. This HN post is specifically about the conference, that's why the title is "Google I/O 2023".