Comment by nine_k

Picasa definitely went against the grain of Google, which is all about tying you to online services.

Hangouts had trouble scaling to many participants. Google Meet is fine, and better than e.g. MS Teams.

Legacy suite, free forever? Did they also promise a pony?..

Play Music: music is a legal minefield. Don't trust anybody commercial who suggests you upload music you did not write yourself.

Finance: IDK, I still get notifications about the stocks I'm interested in.

NFC Wallet: alive and kicking, I use it literally every day to pay for subway.

Can't say anything about Chromecast. I have a handful of ancient Chromecasts that work. I don't want any updates for them.