Google brings to mind the ship of Theseus - many of the core decision makers have changed over the years, to the point where it's arguably a different company.
The biggest change was 2015 (two years after your article): the founders and Eric Schmidt stepped back and a couple of other folks retired, leading to a new CEO, CFO and CBO. Their opinions on how to best run the company were quite different to their predecessors.
I think another major change is the attention Google started to get from government and regulators.
You mean the same Eric Schmidt who admitted that he used a BlackBerry for years after Android was released?
> the founders and Eric Schmidt
Still have huge influence as demonstrated by them stepping in to lead parts of the AI push. Ezra Klein actually has an interesting perspective that the owner class of Silicon Valley has moved right a lot more and the workers are still the same politically causing companies to behave differently. My experience in Tech largely tracks. I would say the middle management and manager class are largely good people and try to navigate the world as best they can although they will choose to not rock the boat whenever possible. The tolerance for activism has just evaporated so we don't hear as much about it anymore.