...are you forgetting basically everyone involved with Stadia takes home >$100,000/year? These are not exactly coal miners here. Everyone with any kind of software career has worked on a project that got canned.

Don't get that, isn't it like that everywhere, does anything else make sense?

If the decision is not final, why distract the workers who would now have a what-its-worth-if-it-maybe-ends thinking?

And at the moment the decision is made the opposite, it doesn't make sense to let anyone keep working on it, so it is abrupt and surprising for most?

Also, what is bad about it, sure it is a bit frustrating to trash work, but sometimes things change... for me, this never resulted in layoffs but there is always enough work for skilled people and they move to other projects in need (most times being the main reason for such decisions). Not at google?

I would understand your frustration if these were layoffs, but the article doesn't indicate that at all. They also aren't immediately being kicked out of their jobs, the work is just going to wind down over the next few months until January.

This article is telling us that Stadia employees were given a 3+ month heads up that their division would close in January. Instead of letting that news leak in a way that Google couldn't control, it decided to make a press release after informing their workers.

That's very humane in my book

They're not getting laid off though. The article mentions another team on a discontinued project had 4 months to find work at Google.