alt Hacker NewsGoogle Authenticator is a separate app that you need to download from Google Play. Native android solution is Google Password app which is pre-installed (at least on Pixel) and its functionality is extremely rudimentary even compared to Apple Passwords. No TOTP support there.
I think that Google does not care about security for their users, because their passwords app is clearly some intern work, not something really well thought. They just slapped it to mark a checkbox in their "Chrome password autofill" TODO list and moved on to a more pressing issues like implementing user tracking and extracting more ads revenue. Apple had similar issues for years, but I think that their recent releases significantly improved.
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It's not ideal but there's been some progress.
I'm not sure we can blame Google for not pushing their Authenticator more, most services have been dead set on SMS and are now slowly moving to Passkeys, probably for the best.
Until recently, Google Authenticator codes could not be backed up or transferred to a new phone. When I replaced my Android device, I had to re-register every TOTP code that I had in Google Authenticator. This led me to Authy, and later on to Yubikey since the code is removed from my phone completely.