There’s a fork of openboard that you can add the DLL for google swipe typing to. I’m currently using it and the swipe works as well as gboard

Don’t worry, they’ll be releasing the expansion soon. The factory must grow.

Google has R&D ADHD. They get halfway to refining good ideas and then drop them for the new shiny. From the interviews with engineers in the article it seems like it comes from senior management.

PrivateInternetAccess still supports it through most of their servers. I’m having success with them still