The trust issues go beyond what you mentioned. I have seen met people who's Google accounts have been summarily suspended without recourse for reasons unknown.

The trust issues go beyond what you mentioned. I have seen met people who's Google accounts have been summarily suspended without recourse for reasons unknown. No, these were not scammers trying to game the system. In all cases it was newcomers to the AdSense world who put up sites with Google ads. A few days later they got hit with full suspensions, no recourse, no customer service of any kind. These are honest people with honest brick-and-mortar businesses who definitely have not time to go on an ad clicking spree or anything like that. The fact that Google does business as one might imagine an immature 13 year old might is troubling enough that I avoid them like the plague. The only service I use is analytics. Everything else is as though it didn't exist, docs, gmail, cloud services, etc. I don't trust them and I make it very clear to clients and associates that they should steer clear. As you say, what I do like about Google announcing price cuts is that they are usually followed by AWS making adjustments. If Google start behaving as adult responsible business people they have a shot at earning my and others' business. Until then I view them as teenagers more interested in popping zits in front of a mirror than adults conducting business in an environment of mutual respect. Trust is one of those things that takes a thousand times more effort to earn back than it does to nurture and to keep.