This is a deeply weird take IMO. Nobody "embraces risk" because they have a risk fetish. You take on risk because you believe you can be paid for it, and perhaps you are better equipped to mitigate the risk than the people paying you to take it.
There is no payoff for using a Google product versus one of the competitors, so a rational person would not accept the risk that Google pulls the plug on a product, or some contractor gets banned by Google and gets your whole account frozen, etc. There's no upside. It's not even gambling because there's no "win" possible - it's more like shooting an arrow straight up into the air and hoping it doesn't land on your head.
> There is no payoff for using a Google product versus one of the competitors
The linked article is literally about how Google is better than its competitor though! Obviously some people disagree.
If you want to write a nuanced take about risk and benefit, I'm there for it[1]. It's the stunningly absolutist take on something as clearly-not-a-big-deal as a cloud service provider, by people who would otherwise be willing to bet their careers on a job with a good vibe, that seems "deeply weird" to me.
[1] Actually I'm not. That's stuff's boring. But I respect that people do it.
There is no payoff for using a Google product versus one of the competitors, so a rational person would not accept the risk that Google pulls the plug on a product, or some contractor gets banned by Google and gets your whole account frozen, etc. There's no upside. It's not even gambling because there's no "win" possible - it's more like shooting an arrow straight up into the air and hoping it doesn't land on your head.