Google hires the best developers in the world. They pay well beyond anyone else except the other big SV tech giants, who compete for the best. I don't work for them but if money was my main motivator and they had jobs not too far from me I would totally want to. My point is: don't pretend you're superior to them. You're very likely not, and even if you are really good, they're still about the same level as you. If you think they're doing "dumb" development, I can only think you're suffering from a very bad case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect , without meaning disrespect.

Ignoring the fact this isn't even true, you're completely misunderstanding my point.

As I said, Google does not prioritize for technical expertise, primarily because that's quite individual-centric. They're a large organization and their goal is to make sure people are formatted and replaceable.

They hire generally smart people and mold them to solve problems with the frameworks that they've previously built, with guidelines that are set such that anyone can come and pick it up and contribute to it, in order to facilitate maintenance in case of turnover or changing teams.

They also hire a lot of people straight out of university, with many people spending large portions of their career there without seeing much of the outside world.

As a result, their workforce is not particularly adept about using third-party tools in a variety of situations; they're optimized to know how things work at Google, which is its own sub- (or arguably mono-)culture.

Being an expert requires using a tool in many diverse codebases for widely different applications and domains. A large organization like this is not a particularly good data point to assess whether people can become good experts knowledgeable about the gotchas of a programming language.