People won't switch to on-prem because if Google and some other providers screw up, there still are many other cloud providers. For K8 they could have gone with

People won't switch to on-prem because if Google and some other providers screw up, there still are many other cloud providers. For K8 they could have gone with anyone from Digitalocean to Linode. Actually, they could have already replicated their cluster to more than one provider to use as failover in such a case. (assuming that they were using K8)