>> I just think that by unbundling the services is a win overall... our application looks more like a normal Go webapp<< That is a valid use case but it's just

>> I just think that by unbundling the services is a win overall... our application looks more like a normal Go webapp<< That is a valid use case but it's just one of the use cases for GAE. There is a use case for folks who wanted a pure serverless which means they were willing to be 'locked in' in exchange for not having to figure out or setup a bunch of servers/services and doing the integration. It was powerful for some folks to not have to worry about search, memcache, users, etc. You just drop an API link and you now have access to all of the above services. At the end of the day, maybe Google decided that the number of folks with your own use case far outweighed those with the other use case that I described.