John C. Dvorak has been complaining for years about how Google handles press requests. I don't have a good link to point to that captures what he's stated- but i'd summarize his position as this:

Google is completely shut down to journalists. They ignore press requests with legitimate information requests and if they don't like the tone, you'll get no official response. Dvorak observes that Google is starting to get worse and worse coverage in mainstream tech media as a result.

When articles like this do come out, they're usually privileged access and tightly controlled. Lots of beautiful photos of young, attractive google employees "changing the world."

In this case, we have yet another article published talking about how google is doing everything right.

Krebs is typically a reliable journalist, but this article stinks of privileged access to me. The key point is right at the beginning of the article:

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017 [...] the company told KrebsOnSecurity.

How much trust should we be investing in The Great Google again?