Any sane company with more than 10 customers already has HAP (high awareness periods) which imply freeze for deploys unless it's for incident remedation.

I remember when firefox changed the order of: "open in new tab", "open in background tab" in menu for no good reason what so ever.

Switched to chrome(ium) imeddiately after that.

I don't get it, do exclusives really drive sales?

Why I would care about a game that's only available on one platform, even if I wan't to play it real bad it will not justify purchase of a console or whatever stadia is.

I still haven't played last of us and I really want to since apparently it's good, will I purchase ps4 for it? hell no, so why do they bother?

what a load of crap.

I assumed that people who use their mac for work or are touch typists don't really look at the keyboard?

So what's the point?

Your point is valid, however there are no public restrooms near google campus, near as in reachable walking distance, there's a gas station and a shop close by but you need to know where to go, which tourists probably don't.

While we were there no one cared about their bikes (they are shit) nor wanted to go to their restrooms.

I still keep my gmail account for my android phone, which is also used as *send_spam_here* mailbox, my primary is being handled by zoho, which is OK.

Just pick debian netinst and go with whatever WM + login manager you like.
I'd recommend xfce4 + slim, my grandma find it easier to use than LXDE.
wicd-curses is an easy to use wi-fi manager.
I dont have any auto-updates configured and they are done when I come over.
Can't help you with other points as I've have none/too little experience with that.