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Yeah that doesn't sound true at all.

Was recently at an angular conference -- they said they would continue to support it until the _majority_ of the community had made the switch. That's so far from happening, I imagine they'll be supporting it for years.

At least until they get tired and change their minds, which may not take that long.

while could be true, its probably not currently the case.

Even if that did, there might be a community that pops up to take on the burden instead of G.

based on that statement and others my read is basically:

We know a lot of important people and they gave us information you don't have, to which we have made business decisions that affect you that we didn't communicate. Did we tell you? no. Now that you know, are we going to elaborate? nope. trust us, our people on the inside will be proven correct soon enough, so you can thank us later.

This is not correct. Development of 1.x is still very much under Google's control.