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> What does google gain from stopping people converting stadia controllers to Bluetooth in the future?

It means they can delete the code from the monorepo.

The hardware isn't changing. If they aren't going to provide bugfixes and support they can just archive the built artifacts and publish a torrent or public Google Drive folder.

They do have that, and I think it'll be on GitHub indefinitely, but Google is hosting a live site which can reflash the controller.

Eventually the framework it's running will be deprecated and someone will clean it up.

All of the flashing logic is client-side. As a bonus they could archive the whole site. But even if just the firmware blobs were available it would be a huge win as developing another flasher is probably pretty easy with the provided documentation. I suspect that it wouldn't be hard to identify and download most of the firmware that could be used (I don't think there are many controller revisions) but distributing those will be a legal grey area without a proper license from Google which presumably owns the copyright.

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