I still struggle with this one. It really is hard not to get emotionally attached, especially if you find a real cool method to complete a project when, to management, it might just make a text box show a value of "123" every 2nd Thursday of every 3rd month.
Nice! Definitely going to keep Chrome OS Flex in my radar. If I can throw an OS on my outdated, yet still working, devices and have an Apple-like ecosystem & integration within the Google world... that does tempt me.
Like you said, I hope Google doesn't do their usual wow-cool-okay-lets-kill-it-now move with this too...