My point isn't about fighting back vs rolling over. Just that it doesn't achieve anything to guess at why Google did a certain thing.

Edit: Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about complicity and neither did the GrapheneOS announcement in the part I quoted.

The quote is from another thread, not sure why GP didn't link their source to avoid this confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946698