Thanks for the answer. That makes a lot of sense. I guess To some degree, I did know this. But the media has been portraying these moves as a complete move, hence the whole "exodus" hype. It bothers me still, because this rhetoric may lead to scenario I described above for smaller companies.

The media is sensationalist as ever — I would worry about any CTO or Engineering Lead who based such a huge important decision on a Business Insider article.

Is that a bad thing? Competition good.

Mmm... I think you'll be seeing them push more AWS/Azure stuff onto GCP. :)

This.

If you can afford it, multi-cloud makes sense. Reduced risk to outages, etc.

Personally I've seen smaller companies also doing the same.