Everything about your post is correct except the "No,". Googlers have both OKRs and snippets.
> Google tried to avoid this scenario with 'snippets'
My point is that OKRs are meant to be used for tracking performance (such as what the article was talking about) and snippets are more for personal use or casually for information among teammates or other curious people who want to know what you work on.
My first thought when reading this was that I would have nodded in agreement 90% of the time no matter what the remaining content of the parent had been.