Google also announced that the current GMB web portal "will support mostly large companies with multiple placements." This has led to mixed reactions from search engine optimizers and digital marketers.
Some suggest that Google is moving away from supporting small and medium-sized businesses, while others suggest that the impact on most small businesses will be minimal, as the desktop platform is already used mainly by agencies and companies with different locations. Since Google has only offered "additional information about these changes in the coming months", we will all have to wait a bit to see the real result.