I've maintained this idea for a while as well. It's really only after Pichai took over that Google and Android both have started scrapping useful programs/apps/services, made needless change to make products worse, and in general just haven't really innovated much at all. At least when compared to how the company was run when Larry Page and Erik Schmidt were running the company.
This dude has made Google boring.
Hate when people say a certain time period of your life should be the best time of your life. Childhood, teenage years, 20s... High school, college... It doesn't matter. Your life is yours and it's different than anyone else's. You're allowed to have different points in your life when it's good and bad. Don't feel like you're missing out because of some pointless, arbitrary rule that says this is supposed to be the best point in your life.