Google is, at its core, an advertising company that tries to disguise itself as a technology company. When necessity calls, they will undoubtedly elect to divert resources towards their core business and away from their hobby projects (which GCP is).
I think you'd be quite surprised by how big it is inside Google. & Kurian won himself a lot of favor when Cloud figured out how to make sure it became profitable in Q2? 2023.
It was the last Google organization to have a genuine sustained hiring spree and didn't face nearly the same amount of cutbacks
