[caturopath]

I don't really agree.

It's obviously purposefully non-committal, which makes sense, as Google leadership clearly is not inclined to want to be remote-first.

Lots of stuff is really group-specific at many firms. Google aims to be more top-down than most companies its size about these sorts of things, but it's a valid model to say some-teams-this-is-acceptable-some-it-is-not.