I think you could go further - the old Google culture was not great at teamwork, and most definitely not when teams crossed boundaries with third parties, where they would expect to be dictating reality and struggled when this wasn’t possible. (Credit where it is due - certain people in the Android group worked this out and changed their tune, and much money was made as a result).

There are limits to how much tiny teams can do and old Google was pushing those limits too often.

Part of the function of a Jobs type character is to be the defining asshole in the organization that no one has a chance of defeating alone.