[jimrandomh]

Google has a reputation for sometimes randomly banning people, from all Google-controlled properties at once, for opaque reasons that are suspected to be malfunctioning automated systems. They have no appeals process, and if these stories do ever get resolved later, we don't hear about it.

This means every time I look at a new Google product, I ask: If every Google product I use shut off at once, how bad would it be to add this one to the list? So Google Pay, for example, is a total nonstarter; in a situation where most of my communication methods suddenly break, simultaneously losing access to credit cards would be literally life threatening. Similarly, I could never recommend Google Cloud Platform to an employer; losing the ability to do system-administration work at the same time as losing access to gmail would just be too much to manage.