[lrem]

I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here - give a schedule for the turndown, instead of "this will stop serving a couple months after some binary no longer compiles".

[musicale]

> can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself

Archiving the problems and editorial solutions as static html would have been nice.

[lrem]

It would, but then you're talking about a launch of a thing that wasn't there before. So you need to go through all the reviews needed for that, which might be way too much work for a volunteer trying to salvage something that just lost the team.