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I'm not altogether sure that's really the mechanism in play here.

I tend, myself, just to apply Clausewitz' rule to such situations ("Plan not for your enemy's (apparent) intentions, but for his capabilities", or, in short, Assume Bad Faith, to riff on a Wikipedia rule -- why do you think they need to *specify* that's a rule?), and I suspect something similar, if perhaps not so formalized, is what drives a lot of people's opinions; a perception that a company is unusually *good* can override it (viz: early Google, though perhaps they've worn out their welcome).