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One of the more stubbornly persistent recurring themes from tech curmudgeons goes something like this. “When I was young, computers shipped with BASIC, and you had to laboriously type in programs from magazines to make the do _anything_. Computers these days are shiny, hermetically sealed boxes with no built-in language that do anything you want at the press of a button. In this way, we are betraying future generations of nerds to grow up without the advantages we had.”
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Everything about a company's strategy—what new ventures are given attention, what old ones are scrapped, the degree to which it tolerates risk—all get entwined in the question “How does this help us execute our core reason for existing?”