Comment by Apocryphon

Google was also characterized by their infamous data-first 41 shades of blue A/B test. It seems like they went into an extreme where design was informed by user behavior, by empiricism, rather than by the taste of the designer.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/05/why-googl...

> Actually, I’ll grant the Oculus division, which was mostly about engineering and designed cool products.

Oculus was an acquisition, so maybe that's why.