We love to cling on to what we have and fight against anything that might remove it from us. Even when we would benefit from the loss.
So it is with companies. Just because Google was an amazing toddler doesn't mean it's an amazing grown-up. Plenty of our angelic youngsters turn out to be grade-A assholes or psychopaths a few years later on.
Which is to say, the google that we knew back in the 90s and 2000s is dead, and has been for a long time.
Whether or not it was a good decision depends on who you ask. I've gotten a lot of utility out of Google's other services over the years (Gmail, Maps, Voice, Drive, Photos, etc, etc...), so I'm not going to completely deny the upsides, but lately I've been slowly migrating away from relying the Google ecosystem.
It's too much control and power in the hands of one monolith. Most modern governments have checks and balances to power that the people (users) can weigh in on. Google is beholden to its stockholders only, and the primary visionaries have moved on.
It's hard for me to continue backing the company vision at this point - since I don't know what it is any longer.
Of course all things change -- that doesn't mean something changing for the worse is therefore inevitable or less shameful