Yup. It's more likely... crappy engineering than political bias. Google has a lot of great engineers, but it seems when it comes to LLMs, they are further behin

Yup. It's more likely... crappy engineering than political bias. Google has a lot of great engineers, but it seems when it comes to LLMs, they are further behind the 8 ball with respect to the minutiae and gotchas etc than people realize. They aren't doing well. It could be political bias, the place is a bit of an echo chamber.