> seems to me Google has been going from strength to strength quietly in the background capturing consumer market share and without much (any?) infrastructure problems considering they're so vertically integrated in AI since day one?

The Google Antigravity subreddit is a shitshow though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleAntigravityIDE/

Damn, you're not kidding. Might be worse than r/ClaudeAI in terms of user sentiment, and that's saying something.