Imagine if they'd never shut anything down.

People would be constantly popping up on HN repeating a different mantra about how bloated and unfocused they were (although arguably Google manages to be bloated and unfocused despite the shutdowns - but that's another debates)

Most of the Google shutdown's were understandable whether you like them or not.

In any case - it's getting tedious to hear the same comment on every Google related post. They shut things down. We get it.