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Opposite effect for me. I was getting workspaces for free to basically send and receive five emails a month or so. I pay Google for Google One storage, Stadia, and YT Music. Their reneging of workspaces is going to lead to me giving Google zero dollars per month. I'm sure I'm a rounding error to them, but perhaps others are in the same boat.

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But you missed the key point. The goal was not to get more money for Google. The goal was to get a fat bonus. Doubling an orgs profit by destroying value requires some good, high-level holistic analysis to uncover. Meanwhile the VP in question will be doing everything in their power to obfuscate that, at least until after the next comp planning cycle.

At which point they will fix the mess they created and ask for an even bigger bonus.

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