Given this anyone still thinking Google lost needs to update their belief system
Selling .coms and Donut's gTLDs? Peanuts.
Godaddy makes all their money from other stuff, and Google still does lots of other stuff. Google Workspace still prints money.
That's not only losing, but record-setting losing.
Google has a completely different payoff timeline than you seem to
They are bigger than most governments and invest in decade horizons