How is it a practical question? You're taking on no long-term dependency by using this service. You'd use it to find a data set you need, and then use that data

How is it a practical question? You're taking on no long-term dependency by using this service. You'd use it to find a data set you need, and then use that data set. If the service were to go away tomorrow, you're still better off having used it than not having used it. Your comment was totally generic. Nothing about it was in any way specific to this service. The only specific part was your belief that it had just launched, when it was actually six years old. So it seems a bit hard to believe that you were genuinely interested in using this, and the only thing stopping you is having some kind of a guarantee on a minimum lifetime for the service. What you wrote has a much stronger pattern match to seeing what you mistakenly thought was a new product launch, and trying to get in the first "can't wait for this new product to be killed lol" comment. Have a look at the links to the previous HN discussions that ChrisArchitect posted on the toplevel. You can see exactly the same kind of generic low effort comments implying an imminent deprectation/sunset/shutdown in the threads from 2020 and 2021. And here we are in 2024.