Exactly my reaction. Every time I've used something from Google, it ends up dead in a few years. Life is too short to waste so many years learning something that is destined to die shortly

These are just extended press releases, for marketing and management layers, who don't have to use these things themselves, but can look good, when talking about it.

agree but at the same time there's not too much lock in with these IDEs these days and switching is very easy. Especially since they're all VSCode forks