It’s worth noting that people do crap on google for doing this style of stuff constantly. It has basically nothing to do with the release early part, and everything to do with how things are deal with after that early feature light release. The entire point of “release early” is to be able to communicate with users about what direction the project should go. If you don’t keep iterating and working with user feedback (as at least google often doesn’t), then that’s why people complain.