I agree from the standpoint of a user of a service, but that's just how it is nowadays because they work like a giant startup incubator. Several ideas are tried, as many as possible, as fast as possible, and some are worth for them to keep. Most are not. At least if it is opensource, if Google abandons it but it still is useful for a reasonable number of people, one can hope that a community will form and take over development.

Does it matter that App Maker is only available with a G Suite business subscription? I'm skeptical too, but at least this is (indirectly) a paid product.

>In the past years Google has deprecated more than 100 services, so I will never trust them to build any software using their proprietary stack.

And Microsoft has abandoned over 220+ products and services.

https://pastebin.com/UJh2XNFE

[citation needed]