[IfOnlyYouKnew]

Your attempts to convince yourself somehow make it look even worse. At least own the decision!

FWIW, whenever it takes you a long time to get something working, such as a constantly running Collab with a static IP or automatically updated link to it or DNS: that's a sign. Even more if, as in this case, what you are doing would be trivial to enable/make easier if Google wanted to.

[nostalgebraist]

Serious question: did you read the post? You seem to be critiquing something quite different from what I did.