Google is a brand. If that brand was held in the low regard it deserves the problem would work itself out. People would still work there, but they would be embarrassed about it.
I talk about this stuff whenever I get the chance to do so. Hopefully it will help remind people that working at Google is not cool.
You do have to fight through some dark patterns that discourage side-loading. But at least you can do it on Android.
Also, it is getting harder to avoid using Google Play Services in your apps since they are putting more Android features behind that iron curtain as well.
That does not explain why Goog doesn't treat people like humans.
If the app developer has been in good standing for years, and has a popular app, why not send them more information as to why they are in violation? And give them some time to fix it.
The claim could be something related to interfering with their business.
"GOOG agreed to provide my company a service that we have reasonably relied on"..."GOOG struck my app for no cause causing my business damage..." and so on.
Though, in-real-life, people who use google services have probably agreed to terms to bar any such claim.
People who work for Google are supporting a company that is building the dystopia my children will have to deal with.
Google programmers have other options. But the pay and prestige is not there. I can understand why people work at GOOG and FB. But it does not absolve them from being part of the problem (a big part of problem).
But there is no reason for people who work at GOOG to be respected for working there or otherwise held in high regard by their peers in the industry. It is a job for them, okay, I get it. But there are plenty of jobs for them to choose from.
True, but Goog would be like Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, the government, Geico, etc. Each have 1000's of programmers, but no one works for them unless they have to.
Certainly SW luminaries wouldn't. But the pay is good.
That's what everyone says about bad places. That's what they always say when asked to do terrible things.
There will be people they could hire, but it wouldn't be anyone that would get invited to conferences, and so on. Nobody that would make Stanford proud.
People who work at Google know they are working for a terrible company doing terrible things (there are plenty of those...) but those programmers, every single one of them, is able to easiliy work somewhere else. It isn't like they are warehouse workers slaving for Amazon.