The “oh noes!” Lock-in arguments are comical. Everything is lock-in. And it’s unlikely google makes some radical consumer change to screw people would hurt its efforts to be the #1 or #2 player. If we just focus on building on the things these cloud providers have built we can stop being leery about things and focus on the product and quit wasting cycles on things that don’t matter like the lock-in fear.
You may have misinterpreted the comment chain. It sounds like you're talking about vendor lock-in. They're talking about being locked out of their Google account due to a Google bot incorrectly categorizing their work as spam or abuse. The implications for them being locked out is that they can't use anything related to their Google account. That could include their personal phone, personal email account and personal cloud services.
