It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.
Google Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users.
Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users.
Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy.
Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News.
I can’t speak to workflow longevity. My assumption, based on enterprise work experience, is that corporations using Office 365 and MS Flow are going to prefer that workflow over Google Docs (and they’re probably already federated to Azure AD, making access control easy peasy).
People want to derisk what they deliver, and want to keep their jobs. Microsoft delivers on that, Google does not. This isn’t about emotion, it’s about pragmatism.
No doubt there are enduring legacy effects of enterprise Office use. There's a very long tail there.
However, I think Google is approaching this from the End User standpoint. They're making it possible for people with just a little tech skill to start making magical things, no engineer required. The paradigm is shifting as we speak.