Indeed! Love the spirit, work your way bottom-up as you encounter problems, remain practical yet keep that 10,000 ft view. All compounded by splendid execution, to the point that you are elevated 'upstream' so to speak by the master[1].
(There might also incentive for Google to move away from anything even remotely touched by Oracle; case in point being Java, despite the open sdk for that).
- Started by making refactoring plugins for IDEs. Became irritated by those IDEs. Wrote their own IDE.
- Supported various programming languages. Became irritated by those languages. Made their own programming language.