

I’m actually certain that the issues facing Nextcloud are not some malicious anti-competitive effort, but yet more sheer and utter incompetence from every enterprise/business facing aspect of Google.
That both may be true and anticompetitive at the same time. Google cloud services apps certainly aren’t randomly getting blocked or going through the same system. Google has steadfastly refused to reply to them or consider their needs.
I get what you’re saying, but giving yourself a fast lane in other business areas is an explicit choice to be anticompetitive. That decision on its own is inherently malicious. It doesn’t allow you to then say the consequences of that decision are neutral because you didn’t single out this specific competitor to block (or at least there’s no evidence you did). This is frankly a slam dunk case in the EU that will result in heavy fines for Google.