I've brought this up a few times, but the Prediction API was deprecated: https://web.archive.org/web/20200112103521/https://cloud.goo...

I understand Google heavily rewards new product launches with promotions. Is that part of company culture not at all within the GCP org? I don't know, I'm asking.

People aren't conflating GCP with the rest of Google. They're just unaware of any markedly different promotion incentives in that org.