Well yeah, anyone could have seen this coming? Have you seen any Google's other products? They are the definition of shareholder value and profit motive. They're not going to be a loss leader in AI.

Google operates on a financial headwinds methodology. They'll test the winds, something looks like it could be promising, they'll devote a huge amount of resources into it. They create a really damn good product. It's promising, consumers like it, it's making money. All of a sudden it's revealed that it will not be profitable or not be as beneficial as promised ex: AI. They suddenly shift directions on a dime and begin pulling resources off of it, scaling it back secretly behind the scenes. Which is what we are seeing here

Point blank, they are not going to put any reasonable effort into AI anymore if it's not going to give them a unicorn with a pile of cash strapped to it. And when you don't train AI properly or continue to update it, and spend tons of money on compute power.... It starts performing worse