alt Hacker NewsStadia was pretty technically awesome, and also a rounding error on Google's overall engineering budget.
"Ambitious" engineering means something very different inside of Google. Example: Spanner. Infra Spanner is correctly described as a "generational achievement". Very few people outside of Google have any idea that it exists, or what it does, and that's fine.
Stadia was yet another platform that Google tried to make and failed. Yes, it was a rounding error in their budget, but that is largely the point!
They have become a financing company that is looking for where to spend money to make money. That they are spending a lot of money on developers will only last as long as that makes them money.
Again, this is not, necessarily, bad. I just don't trust them to make a software product that will survive outside of their garden.