I buy that... but real talk, there's gotta be a ton of bloat in the engineering org, no?

I've never worked at Google but I know shitloads of Googlers. And listening to their work problems... it sounds like engineers outnumber the other functions like 10:1 (at a minimum) but still produce mind-bogglingly slow estimates for the simplest shit. Like... 9 months to create a settings page. 6 months to change a few pages cumulatively simpler than a CRUD app.

Is it the systems they have to work with? The approvals to connect to this or that? Is everything within Eng bureaucratized to fucking hell and back? Or are >50% of them completely faking it and utterly useless? What the hell's going on there?

Edit: for context... yes, the abstracted examples I'm giving are coming for the perspective of PM / Design / Marketing folks. And when I ask my Eng Googler friends they get awkward and cagey and seem to not want to say anything mean about anyone.