It's a solid reason to not use any SaaS. You might be drinking too much anti-Google koolaid if you think their product failure rate is any different than the rest of the field.
At least with a Google SaaS it won't get suddenly ransomwared^W acquired by Oracle or Big Blue or Broadcom. It will die with dignity instead.
> You might be drinking too much anti-Google koolaid if you think their product failure rate is any different than the rest of the field.
The rate may not be different, but Google has demonstrated organizational willingness to obliterate SaaS products that have an audience but not a sufficiently large one to suit Google's model of revenue generation.
> It will die with dignity instead.
I don't care how my software dies, I care that it died and how much work it will take to replace.
Well, the alternative for a megacorp like Google is to stop attempting to innovate, either top-down (like Apple aborting its entire car platform) or bottom-up by collapsing under the bloat of never making those hard choices (like many other sleepy giants).
I will grant that it's repetitive, but it's also a solid reason to not use any products Google makes if you want to avoid the churn. And it's funny.