Google maintaining or not maintaining something is completely orthogonal to “how any of the web works”. I see no point here.
Google kills whole successful products, what made you think that they would support alternative UIs used by dozens of us?
It’s how Google’s business works, maybe, but that wasn’t the argument.
Arguing that they should maintain multiple views is just ignorant of the world we live in. You will be disappointed further.
Whether or not a trillion-dollar company with 170 000 employees can afford to maintain two views for a product with 2 billion MAU or make it not suck, now that is really irrelevant.
that remains to be seen