"Google parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent of the company’s total."
This is just a normal optimization, and holy fuck are they huge.
During the pandemic everyone was over-hiring, it doesn't exactly tell you what you've wrote, but you are right as a whole.
They could and they would if they wouldn't profit from this in the end,
for some reasons there is no official Flatpak and they don't want to support a Snap package, they just say anything but the *.deb is unsupported, kinda weird because they use the Flatpak package on Steamdeck because that is Arch-based, i guess they are somewhat involved there.
As much as they do for the Linux movement, they should get their shit together when it comes to a cross-distro client, preferably Flatpak obviously.
Why they don't take over the work and make it official with support is beyond me though.
The flatpak version hammers my DNS-server when downloading it isn't funny anymore, 100s requests a minute for the same domains, it ignores the TTL too.
I think they also use the flatpak version on Steamdeck? Really weird.
It's unofficial and 3rd party, by that logic any OS could be sued.