I think you need to think through objectives and motivations rather than approach policies as if they were if-then-else conditions. Objective of Google is to m

I think you need to think through objectives and motivations rather than approach policies as if they were if-then-else conditions. Objective of Google is to maximize their search revenue. The biggest driver of revenue is users. More users use Google search more often if it shows them relevant high quality content more often and they're satisfied after clicking through and reading. Big name famous publishers usually produce high quality content. Try want traffic and they also want to monetize via subscriptions. So naturally there's a win win for Google to show high quality results in spite of paywall and find a way to work together.