I'm kind of disappointed that this article is just an open letter to Google outlining why the author is choosing to leave, and not a piece on the alternatives and the experience transitioning.
In my opinion Google is only doing better and better. Their new material design is easy to work with, though they aren't using it yet on all of their services.
I'm also pretty excited about their domain name hosting.
Lots of people are frustrated by Google's behavior and half-baked products that they throw together and later abandon. Google is the antithesis of Steve Jobs' famous saying:
I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't
done as the things I have done. Innovation is
saying no to 1,000 things.
But, this is nothing new about Google. Not sure there's much to discuss here.
Are we supposed to bask in your prescience? How has your quest for non-Google services progressed in the near-year since that post?