A friend also asked me to think of all the recruiters and managers who just placed thousands of Angular devs over the last year. How will they look when the C-level finds out that their team consists almost entirely of people specializing in an aborted product (oh, and their product is now locked-in to some now-aborted Google product)? My friend's point was that perhaps Google is just attempting to paper over any unpleasantries by sticking the old name on a different product.