“The last first; it was only two months ago that Stadia’s Twitter account assured a concerned user that the service was not in fact shutting down.”
The streaming tech worked. The business didn’t. You paid for a controller, paid a monthly fee, then paid full price for games you could never take with you. Google shut its own Stadia studios before they shipped a single game, then told users two months before the end that nothing was closing. Nobody buys a library from a company that kills products for sport.