I expect you'll get plenty of answers here, and I suspect they'll all be along the same lines; I don't trust Google. Of all the companies I've dealt with, the

I expect you'll get plenty of answers here, and I suspect they'll all be along the same lines; I don't trust Google. Of all the companies I've dealt with, they speak their intentions the clearest - they don't care about me or my needs. There is no customer support (since we are not customers) - even if we give them money for GCP etc, we are seen as Users not Customers. They're famous for killing products, they're famous for changing pricing (hello Google maps), they're famous for no phones. I'm happy to be their user - search (and ad words) still works for me - but there's simply no way this is a company I want to do business with, and given any alternative I'll use that instead. I get it, 99.lots % of people will never have a problem. The ones that do are completely screwed. Risk is not just about probability, but also about impact, and the penalty for failure for Google is existential - and that seems like too high a risk for me.