&gt; tl;dr: Largest and best-funded social science program I&#x27;ve ever seen.<p>I don&#x27;t want to sound like a hater and I&#x27;m very well aware of the fact that some design choices might have affected the company&#x27;s revenues, but all this discussion involving very smart people discussing what, from a very &quot;outsider-ish&quot; perspective, seem like trivial issues (the color of the letter G, for example) reminds me of Herman Hesse&#x27;s &quot;Glass Bead Game&quot;. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Glass_Bead_Game#Plot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Glass_Bead_Game#Plot</a>)