Can confirm that I have friends/others get the O1 that basically just have a bigtech role, and they talk it up a bit. Seems this has recently gotten quite easy.
Because those who didn't get it... don't talk about it. Also, as of the latest policy manual at https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-m-chapter-... you can basically paper-mill your authorship into fulfilling a criteria, but that would just indicate that regs, when promulgated according to procedure, takes time. It doesn't insulate you from future adverse effects like removal or theoretically indefinite detention or criminal charges.