Most of the other people (so far) in this sub-thread do not think this. They essentially have a conspiratorial view on it.
There is no evidence to support any other motive.
Any experienced (as in, 10+ years) developer knows better than to trust google with dev tools.
Colab is still going strong. Chrome inspector is still going strong.
They've never released a full-fledged IDE before, have they? Which I don't count Apps Script editor as one, but that's been around for a long time as well.
I think it's much more likely that Google believes this is the future of development and wants to get in on the ground floor. As they should.
I think the comment you’re replying to was addressing the “shutting down” part, not the “investors” part.
also i was alluding to the way their promotion policy encourages people to start rather than maintain projects.
