At best, it'll be something others will be able to leverage and make forks out of, and thanks to its permissive license, they won't have that pesky requirement

At best, it'll be something others will be able to leverage and make forks out of, and thanks to its permissive license, they won't have that pesky requirement to make the source code of their fork available. At worst, it'll be yet another product abandoned in a couple years by Google because it failed to meet some ludicrous goals that are out of reach for 99% of the companies in the world anyway. Such is the way people see Google nowadays, and can you really blame us?