It was also written in our OKRS, etc at the time. I probably have plenty of internal evidence.
In the end, we would have been happy if SF had become a great and reliable place as well. You are assuming the goal was to destroy it. But in practice, we expected them to compete for real and become better as a result.
I've been super-consistent on this for at least 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605689
It was also written in our OKRS, etc at the time. I probably have plenty of internal evidence.
In the end, we would have been happy if SF had become a great and reliable place as well. You are assuming the goal was to destroy it. But in practice, we expected them to compete for real and become better as a result.