This is going to sound like a corp answer but I mean this genuinely as an individual engineer. Google is a leader in its field and that means we get to chart our own path and do what is best for research and for users.

I personally strive to build software and models provides provides the best and most usable experience for lots of people. I did this before I joined google with open source, and my writing on "old school" generative models, and I'm lucky that I get to this at Google in the current LLM era.