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Pidgin used to work great with gtalk, then Google broke the standard. I guess there's always a fear of that when using a third party client.

Google can always change the protocol and stop supporting a native client too.

rclone uses google drive's APIs to talk to them

Anything can happen. We're always at the mercy of the busines decisions of our technology providers. In this case Google can keep the protocol stable and stop supporting the client to the point it stops working after an update of your distro. If you want to be nearly 100% safe you self host whatever the price and the time you have to pour in. Personally I use Syncthing over my home network.

Nothing on that page says it continuously syncs files or handles interruption/resume of syncing.

>continuously syncs files

Mount?

>handles interruption/resume of syncing.

"Transfers over limited bandwidth; intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from the last good file transferred."

No, but having a desktop client fully integrated with the popular desktop environments is a big creature comfort.