There probably could be some backlash, but it would be easy for Google to brush this off by listing harmful features they removed in the process. They have don

There probably could be some backlash, but it would be easy for Google to brush this off by listing harmful features they removed in the process. They have done more drastic things in the past. They have even removed apps entirely from Android phones due to very harmful features, and nobody cared when they heard about the horrid things these apps did in the background.