I have a long-running conspiracy theory that Google deliberately makes the UI’s of their various services (Android, Google Docs, Youtube etc.) baffling and they hide important features away so that you have to use Google to search how to do things.

“Since google doesn’t have any real competition” Thankfully those days appear to be behind us. At least partially because of the shit they pulled.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ It has been known for a while