Sounds familiar
"Give it a few years and that team/division will become so big that it will warrant a spin off or they will just go to an established product."
Company I'm a contractor at will stand up some PoC that everyone forgets about and then a year or two down the road they find it is a critical piece of the daily work and it never got changed over to a production system.
Anon so I can't be yelled at...