[Karunamon]

>I'm sorry but this joke is getting really old. HN loves to point fingers when company stands still.

Joke? There's no need for the false dichotomy.

Google in particular has the organizational attention span of a goldfish on meth, and many of us have been burned one, two, or three times by their recurrent habits of setting something awesome up and then killing it off a short time later with no sane alternatives in place.

This reputation is entirely earned[1]. The safe thing to do if you don't want to sign up for a sudden migration headache in the future is assume that any new Google product is another symptom of their "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" mentality, and that it won't last for more than a year or two.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

(For bonus points, do a mental exercise and note how many of the "absorptions" lack the features of their standalone counterparts)