Make all the snarky comments you want, Google is giving many, many people something that their spending habits prove they want. What is that? A means of funding technology that isn't forking over money to them directly out of your wallet. You don't like what they're doing? Vote with your wallet - don't buy their products. The fact is though, many, many people are voting for Google with their wallets and their choices of software/services, and you cannot level the criticism at Google that the are not giving the public what it wants. Yes, a lot of the fault here lies on a hypocritical public that loves to support a company's practices and bash them simultaneously.
Also, if your fingers are just trembling to bash Google and you have an Android phone, a Chromebook, use Google maps, Gmail, Google docs, YouTube, etch etc... Well, welcome to being part of what you think is the problem, hypocrite. There are alternatives that don't follow Google's business practices and they are getting whipped by Google - because people, like you, don't use them.