The really fascinating thing about this tendency is that Google itself never completed nor even really started the wholesale transition of programs and services

The really fascinating thing about this tendency is that Google itself never completed nor even really started the wholesale transition of programs and services to Golang/microservices. Google does have services that are micro with respect to the overall codebase. But they aren't what most people out there in the wider world would think of as micro. And Golang remains a niche language at Google, perhaps more popular than server python, but far smaller in usage than Java or C++.