The sheer amount of time saved won't help you if it goes away, and it could go away in many ways: canceled, poorly maintained until it eventually becomes unreliable, price raised until you can't live with it but can no longer live without it, etc.
It's quite a risk building your business on a single-source product from a vendor whose business wouldn't be significantly different whether that product succeeded or failed.
I hope Google will resolve this by open sourcing Firebase, making it safe to commit to, while providing great paid hosting for it, making it a better choice to pay them for the "sheer amount of time saved", the maintenance, backup, etc., without having to bet the survival of your company on how committed Google ends up being to this minor product over the years to come.
It's quite a risk building your business on a single-source product from a vendor whose business wouldn't be significantly different whether that product succeeded or failed.
I hope Google will resolve this by open sourcing Firebase, making it safe to commit to, while providing great paid hosting for it, making it a better choice to pay them for the "sheer amount of time saved", the maintenance, backup, etc., without having to bet the survival of your company on how committed Google ends up being to this minor product over the years to come.