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"When will Alphabet opaquely and unilaterally depreciate this product upon which we've come to rely, as they do with many other products all the time?"

Alphabet is a hopelessly disorganized bureaucracy whose leadership appears, at best indifferent to customer needs, at worst hostile to customers that don't toe their line.

It's just a risk calculation you have to make when you're spending millions to build systems of record upon which your enterprise will depend for years to come.

I don't know if its fair or even accurate – but it's the feedback I get from client CTOs and CIOs at sizable companies.