What's their record abandoning actually used products? Sheets is literally 13 years old and is heavily used internally and externally. The odds of it going away are very small.

This "Google cancels everything" is pretty much a viewpoint I hear only on HN. I don't know what reality some people are living in.

They are playing the long game with their GSuite offering. 70% of the USA educational market migrated to Google last 5 years.