Alphabet is actually working on some marvels.

But mostly trying to find another cash printing machine before their current one runs out.

They're giving the appearance that they're working on marvels. Given the amount of raw human intelligence they've hired over the years and the profoundly underwhelming output of the organization it's pretty clear it's was an illusion to trap investors.

Maybe they’re bad at, or maybe the problems are just hard.

Given the output of every other company tackling self driving cars, for example, I think there’s some evidence it’s the latter.

An “illusion to trap investors” seems like a big leap without any real evidence to support it.