[atq2119]

> Is Google truly so far up their own ass that they make it harder to pull in a third party library than write the code in-house?

From the descriptions in this thread, pulling in a third-party library is still far easier than writing the code in-house for them.

At least, it sounds to me like for adding the kind of example you gave, their process for adding the dependency is on the order of person weeks or in the worst case months, while writing the code themselves would be on the order of person years or decades.