I'm curious how google think about the damage this does to the perception of the quality of their AI tools. Every second google search I do reinforces the association "google AI is crap" because you can't help but see it there at the top of the page. Surely this perception hurts Gemini adoption across the board?

I've seen this expressed similarly as the 'configuration complexity clock': https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...

I like your spiral metaphor though, since you learn some things along the way.