One thing that I don't understand about all this deprecation talk, as pointed out here: > So when it comes to shouldering the burden of compatibility, you need

One thing that I don't understand about all this deprecation talk, as pointed out here: > So when it comes to shouldering the burden of compatibility, you need to pay for it. Not us. Surely if there are shoppers/customers affected by a deprecated service on GCP (or any cloud provider), then that would indicate a paying customer behind it. That payment should at least cover costs of running that service (infra, development, software and maintenance). In that case, why deprecate at all? - version the API and continue running it as long as it economically makes sense?