I think that now we know what actually happened, it's essentially false to say "My guesses were close, but not quite right." The summary of the article is that

I think that now we know what actually happened, it's essentially false to say "My guesses were close, but not quite right." The summary of the article is that google did everything right, the dumb customer did something to themselves, and google was just too nice to publicly say that. "It was something to do with automation or terraform or a script" is almost irrelevant to what was actually conveyed in this article.