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On the other hand, that's the reality of software development and should already be priced in. WannaCry was so painful because WinXP and Server 2003 were still in operation, and I bet that was because there were applications that just couldn't be migrated away.

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Sure. But are you going to choose API provider "A" with a history of keeping stable APIs working 10+ years, or API provider "B" which can and does change stuff every year? What's your expected maintenance cost over the lifetime of the service?

Fair point.

On the other hand, Google is notorious for EOLing services that don't have a billion users, even compared to other cloud/web companies. That should be priced in.

I guess it could still make sense for tech-heavy, "we rewrite 50% of our code every month"-companies, like... Google?

Maybe they're mostly running their cloud to iron out the kinks im the API's they use themselves?

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