Didn't Epic take this action (releasing without the protections of the play store) directly saying FU to Google? Isn't an act like that going to receive a respo

Didn't Epic take this action (releasing without the protections of the play store) directly saying FU to Google? Isn't an act like that going to receive a response like Google did? I'm not questioning the morality of either side. Each action correlates exactly with the response.