I'm far less interested in what happens to ex-Googlers. What's just wild about this to me is that Google does not give a crap about outside developers anymore.

I'm far less interested in what happens to ex-Googlers. What's just wild about this to me is that Google does not give a crap about outside developers anymore. None of the new plans court the outside world. Google is all in on Google tech for Googlers. ChromeOS tried to mix in some regular Linux-stack tech: dead, replaced by bespoke Android-ism forever and ever. Cutting off a toolkit used to help folks make good Google style web apps is again that cutting loose ties with the outside world, is turtling up inside their own inland empire.