As of April 10, 2018, Google has deprecated GCM. The GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as April 11, 2019.
There was an earlier bug report (#6848) about moving to FCM, but Google hadn't deprecated GCM at the time. Maybe now is the time to make the transition. I feel like it shouldn't be left at the last minute as it isn't a huge code change, but the functionality is quite critical.
We don't need an issue to track this, but thanks