This is hurting them far more than they realize, and it will continue to hurt them for years to come, because its not part of their DNA to care about customers.

Source: [Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You - by Steve Yegge Aug, 2020 Medium](https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc)

I’ve never used GCP, but this post doesn’t surprise me.