With your logic, Google should give us their search logic/libraries, so we can build our own search engines.

You ain't making sense. Companies need $, and what's wrong with what they do with what they own and can do in this particular case?

Nothing wrong with me having an opinion on their strategy

My logic is not “don’t make money” but more so pick a lane

They can empower the community and let a PaaS emerge that’s locked in on their APIs for example

For example, did Shopify get into building Marketplaces for E-commerce? No

It isn’t like they would not be able to make money from the gaming industry by being just the layer zero, my beef here is that they’re going one layer up

>With your logic, Google should give us their search logic/libraries, so we can build our own search engines.

Yes. Google does not actually care about search anymore, and the threat that the technology could disappear altogether is real.