Alphabet has 117 BILLION DOLLARS cash on hand.
Why is it worth screwing over how ever few people were using this?
Let's say a team to maintain an app like this cost 2 million dollars a year.
For 1 ten thousandth of their cash of hand, they could fund this app for 5 times longer than Homo sapiens have walked on earth. 1.1 million years.
Even if Google shuttering apps is just a meme, why is it even worth feeding the meme when you have such mind bending amounts of money and revenue?
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Of course the answer people will reply with is "they have better things to do with the resources".
That's the mentality that makes people not trust Google.
When you have such mind bending amounts of money, something can be successful by the standards of mere mortals and an embarrassment to Alphabet. No one wants to rely on a company that sees your money as a joke and will gladly pull the rug under you.
This app is a perfect example, what kind valuation do you think an app with 10 million installs for neighborhood engagement would see? We don't have DAUs, but you could literally value a listing with 10 million users in the millions.