Of all the major tech companies, Google is the one that invests the most in their development tools, so that's unlikely to be the cause. It seems more that the

Of all the major tech companies, Google is the one that invests the most in their development tools, so that's unlikely to be the cause. It seems more that the article is trying to namedrop Google as a reason to read their blog post, since they don't even suggest a solution to Google's predicament; all they say is that one should invest in their developer productivity experience, and that Google already does.