It sounds to me like some sort of grand conspiracy to somehow plant connected Albanians in hard-to-get-to places.

As an Albanian-American (see my last name), it's true. We're a part of many, grand conspiracies.

Tracy is amazing. Having just integrated it into a major project, it's leaps and bounds above what we were using previously.

I found the Stadia developer experience to be pretty solid. The visual studio integration was top notch and worked, with a few minor exceptions, without a hitch. Having worked with all major gaming platforms to come out in the last two decades, Stadia was certainly not the worst.

Sure, if one wanted to rewrite their engine.

Shortly before Stadia was ramped down, there was a talk about Stadia team starting the Stadia Porting Toolkit, as they weren't getting enough studios interested in porting their XBox/Windows engines into Stadia, versus what they would get out of GeForce Now and Cloud Game Pass.

The Nobel peace prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee