>> Nest seems to have only improved under Google? They were floundering before the purchase
I think OP is referencing that Google itself is the lack of improvement. Who cares how the company is doing if buying its products are out of the question due to privacy concerns.
Iām in the majority here who would never use or buy a product attached to Google.
That said, they ought to do Google auth integration as it's really annoying to maintain a separate Nest account for those products.