I think the point is that with the resources Google have you need to appear perfect as well as be perfect. Commenting on message boards about how unfair people

I think the point is that with the resources Google have you need to appear perfect as well as be perfect. Commenting on message boards about how unfair people are to poor Google doesn't make me want to support your view. I'm not sure how important this API endpoint was but it's definitely another datapoint in the discussion. I wouldn't choose to rely on Google APIs any more and I think that quite a few people feel the same way. I might choose to use one of the endpoints that few others use and it gets shutdown. I mean look at Stripe for a counter example, they seem to be super solid and are still on version 1 of their API, it literally never changes.