It's rare that Stratechery would use such strong wording: quoting 1984 and calling for the exit of key company employees. Ben actually gave Google lots of cred

It's rare that Stratechery would use such strong wording: quoting 1984 and calling for the exit of key company employees. Ben actually gave Google lots of credits in a previous article about Gemini's image generation. He attributed the mess to Google's intention to avoid criticism. I think it's the opposite: some Google employees feel that they are so righteous that they ought to "align" everyone else to think in their way -- a pure evil. Or in Ben's words: anti-evil.