In my experience Google products like GCP, Tensorflow and more recently Search seem to be driven by the idea that "we know better than our users". Especially in

In my experience Google products like GCP, Tensorflow and more recently Search seem to be driven by the idea that "we know better than our users". Especially in regard to continuously deprecating/obseleting things for a "better" alternative and just expecting users to suck up the cost of migrating (said users may just choose to migrate to another platform that's more respectful of their time instead). Similarly Search with its "You wrote X, but did you really mean Y?" and showing you results without any X, which has become more and more common in recent years. I suspect that unless Google can overcome this user-hostility, they'll have a hard time competing with new AI-based search alternatives that focus on putting the needs of the user first.