I get your point, but you keep supporting it with examples of products that are well outside the auspices of the GCP business unit. Yes, it's true that Google

I get your point, but you keep supporting it with examples of products that are well outside the auspices of the GCP business unit. Yes, it's true that Google capriciously kills products for various business reasons without any regard for customer sentiment. My counter-point to that is that GCP products exist under different conditions, specifically legal and business realities. They have contractual obligations to corporations with very large legal departments. There is also the business reality that if they're going to compete with AWS and Azure then to be competitive they have to behave in similar ways. If they piss on customer sentiment as they have with their b2c services, they'll fail and I think this is very clear to them. That's not to say that they aren't already failing. As I mentioned up thread, their support is laughably bad and when pressed about that fact, they don't seem to actually acknowledge how that could be a problem.