how is this any different from starting new projects at google and leaving them in a half-baked state because that leads to a promotion faster? incentives align behavior

If you really can't see how that is different I don't know what to say.

rhetorical questions are not questions

Maybe don't post stupid comments if you don't want people to point out that they're stupid?

^ You can't respond to this btw. It's rhetorical.

^^ Yes, that was sarcasm.

I didn't mean to suggest "don't reply" -- I did want to start a conversation on how they are more or less the same thing. I guess I wasn't asking for clarity, right, I just wanted to point out that they're similar.

Plausible deniability?

haha