I Looked Past the Keynote Hype: Why A2A + ADK Is the Real Story of Google Cloud NEXT '26

I'll be honest with you. I almost didn't write this post about what I actually wanted to write about. Everyone's keynote recap is going to lead with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform . The rebrand is flashy. Thomas Kurian's line about "turning intelligence into a growth engine" will be quoted in a hundred LinkedIn posts by Thursday. And sure — the platform story is real and it matters. But I've been building multi-agent systems for the past year. I know what the actual friction points are. And wh