isn't that the price you pay for using any online sharing thingy? you gain easy sharing+access (because it's "on someone else's computer"), but lose control. if it makes information easily accessible (contrast with xeroxing paper docs), i think it's a decent trade-off.
it'd be nice if we weren't reliant on one service provider, but idk any good alternatives.
> those students aren’t prepping to work for Google.
i don't get this part. would you criticize the widespread usage of MS Office as "those people aren't prepping to work for Microsoft"?
At any time, you can download your google docs data and have it locally. You can convert it to word/excel formats.
This makes anything you are trying to argue completely irrelevant.
If they basically forced you to keep your data in their proprietary format online-only, then maybe you have an argument.. but since this is not true you are grasping at straws here.