They simply don't care about anything that isn't making Billions a year. Domains was profitable and IMO one of the best domain experiences online and they stil

They simply don't care about anything that isn't making Billions a year. Domains was profitable and IMO one of the best domain experiences online and they still sold it off. Google could easily afford to keep existing short links working indefinitely and simply not allow new entries... it's a simple KV lookup and redirect. Even with billions of links, hardly any overhead.