Let's assume it's AWS storage. After you stop paying (renewing) would you still expect to keep your data forever free of cost?
The difference here is that Google was the one who fired him as a customer, and did so on a timeframe tight enough to make it functionally impossible to actually get all his data back.
around the same time the FBI raided him. I imagine he was quite busy as is.
And there's a difference between "he should have seen this coming" and "he should have seen his data being deleted coming a week after the grace period with no wrning until the week before."