It is a trend I saw countless of times in my professional experience: let's do exactly the same thing as before, but it is now, so it is not the same and so we expect a different outcome. And in the end, the result is the same and the project abandoned soon after being released.

"For home I mostly just need to do bills. Maybe reading or writing." If so, why do you use a computer and not a phone or a tablet? (or maybe just an eink reader).

I think that a lot of people are "switching" to the computer when they want to do things that go beyond what you do on your phone in the bed. And especially in a professional context.

Common things are like:

- I want to write a letter, and looking at the website at the same time to copy elements.

- I want to work on an excel sheet, while looking at pdf documents and websites. For example i'm doing a monthly expenses excel sheet, and i want to look at all my bills, connect to providers website when i don't receive bills. This kind of experience is very very painful on a mobile OS, because the constant "window" switch to go from excel to each info in each document is terrible.

   thanks to a court ruling last month that forces Google to stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps in the Play Store. Google won a temporary administrative stay on this ruling late last month, 

I did not hear about that! Such a shame

They have attempted it, multiple time, I think the first time was with tablet support for Gingerbread.

There was a big trend of "convergence" a few years ago (ios, ubuntu unity...), but everyone realized that it is totally stupid in real life. You usually take the lowest common denominator to be your OS for all devices. That gives a bad experience in the most competent device (ie the computer).

Like for example, you will only have full screens apps or hardly multitasking.

But i guess that everything old is new again, and there are some people at Google that believe that it will give them a better chance of promotion than fixing bug and issues with existing Android os.

ANSI Escape Sequences Cheatsheet

Typically the kind of library that is useless and root cause of the dependency hell we are now living in.

That kind of simple things should be a basic inside once program or at worse a simple snipper copied from stack overflow or anything like that