Google is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-ification of Google?)

A critical opinion piece arguing that Google is in structural decline, drawing parallels to IBM's fall from relevance. Key grievances include GCP's arbitrary account bans (citing the Railway incident), the Google product graveyard, AI Overviews cannibalizing web content creators, YouTube's quality degradation, Android's eroding openness, and a general shift from engineering-driven culture to extractive corporate behavior. The author contends that Google's vertically integrated stack, once seen as an unbeatable advantage, has become dead weight as trust erodes across all product lines.