Google throws everything at the wall to see what sticks, which is admirable in some ways but almost always leaves users in the lurch when they move on to something else.

Quite literally in the case of the ridiculously incompetent shit they did in Louisville when they tried to microtrench Google Fiber there, it failed, and then they bailed and left the taxpayers to cover the mess. Fuck Google.

A ban in China creates higher supply, reducing prices.

Nah, China will still get them, will just cost more to have a proxy buy them and then resell.