That's because the goal of the whining is the whining - people feel emotionally slighted because someone didn't keep maintaining a free product just for them. T

That's because the goal of the whining is the whining - people feel emotionally slighted because someone didn't keep maintaining a free product just for them. This explains why paid alternatives didn't take off - people wanted FREE and they wanted GOOGLE to GIVE them FREE. It's modern developer entitlement at its best - it comes from the same place as all of the abusive attacks on opensource developers when they don't cater to the audience.