If it was the plan from the beginning then why announce it via rambling tweets late at night, before it's even announced to the employees? LOLOLOL. UNICODE X "ICON" LOLOLOL
Interesting, is the ability to know when to exit a prerequisite? I would think there's a distribution between those you spoke of and some that just picked one thing and went forever.
Instead of trying to create some FB vertical, a better strategy would've been to let the growing VR community of those years keep stewing, while sticking to the hardware and core software side to keep the tech moving forward. We had amazing things happening for a time, and the oculus purchase has basically made VR cringe and killed pc vr at the same time.