I'm not sure ex Googlers are even necessary for ill suited technologies to be used. There definitely weren't enough ex-Googlers to explain the spread of microservices or NoSQL. Reading about it on Hacker News might be enough.
Hence now the modular monolith hype, as they rediscover programming languages have modules, and placing a network in the middle doesn't sort out spaghetti dependencies!
At least now Open Telemetry based tools can render those in beautiful ways.
You ... think? I think there's a promotion in that in some organizations...