Sad thing is Google started this 'AI lazyness' back in 2009 when there was a documentary showing how they operate and they meet once a year and not really follow up what's going on so projects never get finished but get released anyways to 'prove' they have a product to meet that or this deadline.
These companies all are ran by financial people that believe in no risks. The OG founders are long gone and the sons of the OG founders don't want anything to do with these companies either so they leave it to a board of directors that don't understand what it's all about.