I've got a wild idea.
What if instead of trying to destroy the web [1], Google tried to become the very best company for web developers? You know, take a play from Microsoft's "Developers Developers Developers" playbook after it was handed off to Nadella. The hip Microsoft that built VSCode, bought Github, and has the #2 cloud.
Maybe a first class web has "native apps" that work on desktop and Android and don't require an App Store. That might handicap their rival Apple, because writing for web once targets two of the biggest three platforms.
Get "distribution/promotion" through Search. Their ecosystem works, ties together, and makes sense.
If Web wins and Google is #1 at it, then nearly all of their foes lose power. They can sell tools, build a flywheel, moat, all in one. And they wouldn't even have to be assholes anymore. All the cool kids stop hating.
I don't expect their leadership to come up with this grand idea, however. We're just going to get more of the same. More wood behind all the arrows, none of which hit the target and all of which get cancelled in two to five years.
[1] (Chrome, AMP, killing adblock, knee-capping HTML5, ruining semantic standards, making search a hard problem)