Its sad for me to see Google being herded in this direction over the last few years. Google was one of the main push behind an open web thorough 2000s-2010s as they wanted data for search and when everything was open they had access to everything. But as new web 2.0 companies came about like facebook that started siloing the internet it started changing things. I have been anti facebook for this reason alone not its data mining etc but because it was the reason the web started to change where instead of websites a lot of companies started building facebook pages with the data not being available unless you are logged in to facebook.
Yes. Wasn't Google also one the main forces behind PWAs? Google also introduced so many new web APIs (even WebUSB!) in an attempt to make web apps competitive with native apps and their native APIs.
To resolve this conundrum, Google as a whole cannot be said to be "for" or "against" the open web. Instead, Google's infamous internal infighting means that you can only say some parts of Google are for the open web, others are against, and sometimes one has an upper hand.
