David Pierce at The Verge writing about Google Podcasts going away and Google’s pattern of abandoning their own apps:

"It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists…"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118873/google-podcasts-shutdown-graveyard