I think this will only be true while there are still weeks left on UI and not many places passing peak infections. Eventually, people are going to want to lock down a job before everyone rushes back onto the job market.
I think there's a perfect storm brewing for v1 of UBI to happen. Andrew Yang put it on the radar, COVID is further straining people living paycheck to paycheck, and we'll have massive unemployment going into a general election.
I'm not sure what it's like at super large companies, but I agree with another comment that assumes they make decisions based on micro-testing interactions with their millions of users.
At a mid-size company I worked at, we looked at metrics using analytics software (like Pendo and Full Story, not GA) and then AB tested variations to see if they moved users to our desired behavior.
I keep my social media accounts only as utilities with reddit the only exception. I've found Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and now HN to be awesome communities of people smarter than me and actually building stuff. The world needs more people building stuff.