Part of me is actually happy that Google lost its shine. A part of this is certainly schadenfreude, for which I am obviously ashamed, but there is another side to it. I remember the awe/respect with which people thought of Google back in the mid-'oughts. Working there carried this huge cachet that few tech companies can compare to today (maybe OpenAI). All these amazing engineers went to work there and everyone was jealous of them. Then they always seemed to end up spending their time on Google+ or Play Store or some other application which was not as glamorous or interesting as you were expecting. It felt like a huge disconnect between the perception and reality. I don't mean to say it was a waste of talent, because clearly some of these things were a huge success. I am glad though that these days people may judge the idea of a big-tech career more objectively.