Not sure why you are triggered by this (do you work on Flutter?) but this "weird" story is backed by https://killedbygoogle.com/ - we are not talking about a company without a track record here. Peace out.
It’s just incredibly weird behaviour and yet, almost every time I’ve seen a conversation about Dart or Flutter on here for the past year or two I keep running into the EXACT SAME situation and made up stories like what you did today.
Even if I could they tend to exaggerate to make the list more impressive. E.g. they include stuff that has just been rebranded or changed form a little (Chromecast) or even things that were obviously one-offs (Google Cardboard??).