Side note but your ending question triggered all my LLM prose engagement bait warning alarms
Ah. So Google cancelled April fools to make every day a big joke?
This is the company with the childish colourful logo, slides & ballpits in their offices and 20% time to do whatever you want etc. Why not?
All of this culture is gone except for Google Doodles. Sterilized to the bone.
I really agree with this sentiment, I feel as though we've gotten bogged down in this terrible Institutional Seriousism, like this thinking that if things are big or things matter then they have to put on a grim face, and I think that just isn't true.