We don't know your application, so of course we can't tell if you made poor design decisions or not. But have you considered that the poor match went both ways?
Google said that they adjusted their prices because people were getting wrongly incentivized to do things that were expensive at their end. And the way free market is set up, pricing is one of the ways that signals are sent to tell customers that they should make different optimization decisions --- including, perhaps, switching to a different technology which is a better match for their requirements.
Yes, that can be painful --- but it's the free market. You might as well complain that some silly folks moved to exburbs hours away from their work, and bought gas-guzzling SUV's, and then got upset when the price of gasoline went up to 3-4 dollars/gallon. Whose fault was that? OPEC? Or the consumer for choosing to live far away from work and to buy a car that had horrible mileage?
