[GrumpyGoblin]

This is a ridiculous reply. I'm not friends with Google. We're frenemies at best.

Google has zero reason to keep this effort going. It won't make them any significant money.

If I were a bettin' man, and I am, I'd say it's a promotion project for some developer or team who is going to abandon it as soon as they move on. Which is SOP for Google.