Is this a comment on the proposed Drive or Google as a whole?

If this is about the Drive feature itself then how is Dropbox different? They have the data of all their users. In fact they know for a fact that its valuable data since the user chose to pay to back it up.

The OP's link was a speculation just like Drive speculation itself.

Google might have problems as a company but that's not as relevant to the success or failure of a Drive feature in my opinion. It all depends on the experience and cost.