It's not that it "must die", there's just no incentive for Google to keep it around. It's just a cost tagged on to maintenance of Google Groups which can be cos

It's not that it "must die", there's just no incentive for Google to keep it around. It's just a cost tagged on to maintenance of Google Groups which can be cost without any major downsides (from Googles perspective). It's more surprising that they haven't killed Google Groups completely.