idk most of the people complaining are just complaining about their claude access, i’ve read hundreds of different peoples articles, i think a large amount of the noise is from people who were abusing antigravity as a free access beta and switching accounts to maintain free access - and as google closed the door - the complaints increased.
not entirely though because they closed out legitimate users who had say for example a personal and workspace account or multiple workspaces for different companies, and googles aggressive stance against the people pulling ‘freemium hacks’ or ‘openclaude’ did lock a lot of legit people out.
the baseline stats have absolutely been affected, which makes it a tech support nightmare. thats really what fascinates me the most 
if you wanna talk about where google - it was way back at gemini 2.5update to 3. right there things went down hill. not just for users - but for google internally, lots of services were cut - the programmatic chain was broken and there was no “backup” or “reboot” function!
then - right when things were… i guess not getting worse, then they throw gemini 3.1 update. ffs and that was the final straw - anything that wasn’t already broken from the 2.5-3.0 update, was now broken too. a lot of stuff that people fixed from the 3.0 update - oh yeah thats broken again now too.
but i mean hey lets look at the bright side of things - if the fakefans leave and google really does tighten up their security to prevent freemiums and openclaude(openclaw) users from abusing the services… maybe we will have better bandwidth, healthier servers for those of us that stick around. 
idk i have verizon and tmobiile and cb shortwave. i have trae and antigravity and kimi on vscode and local llm. then online services - theres copilot, google ai mode, grok, gemini code assist, gemini 2.5 online console… theres lots of options for people.
so i think my point is - theres a lot of fake fans. in any industry, any community - and the quality of what anyone is saying and how they say it speaks volumes to the point.