Oh damn, you broke the triple secret NDA. Next people will find out that Fuchsia is the color faces need to get before the project is revealed to be a conspiracy theory generator.
There are plenty of important reasons for this project, that plenty of people in the past have already made note of. If the one you're going for, already, is some ad/user tracking platform, you're purposely attempting to narrow the capability of your thinking.
(Disclosure: Google employee disappointed that Hacker News doesn't save the eye-roll emoji.)
Conspiratorial or not - on Google platforms, 3rd party applications are 2nd class citizens. Do you think an outside party could write Open-WIFI given the present service integration policies?
The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.
Travel can be extremely cheap nowadays, e.g. budget airlines on weekdays, last minute deals from the big tour operators. Working one 10 hour day a week will allow for way more travel than 4x the money on a 4 or 5 days work week.
Last year I had a consulting gig in a Europe based company, with offices next to a big airport. As summer was slow anyway I'd work 30h weeks (invoicing four 7.5 hour work days) Tuesday - Thursday, and spend the other 4 days at a beach in Ibiza, Bulgaria or Cape Verde (with occasional remote login to take care of emergencies).
