[csydas]

Well it's legitimately founded in that Google has a lot of power over how things are interpreted online due to its omnipresence. Once you reach the size of Google, every action is an experiment in the Butterfly Effect, with each change having many unintended consequences. Product Launches and Discontinuations on a monthly basis, flagging sites as malicious due to a false-positive, bubble search results causing discoverability issues, AMP, the list goes on.

Yes, some people will rag on Google for anything, but there are valid concerns when such changes are made without warning that breaks current functionality. Per the article, this time Google just enabled it for new apps with plans to roll it out to existing apps, but in the past Google as not been as courteous.

It's the classic xkcd situation that every change breaks someone's workflow; the difference being that when you're Google's size and have Google's reach of influence, you end up breaking a lot of someones workflows.