As a Googler, I wish I was as optimistic as you. There is an internal sentiment that valuable roles are being removed that aren't aligned with strategic initiatives, even roles that are widely believed to improve developer productivity. See the entire python maintainers team being laid off: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/1cem1wk/goo...

Roles fixing FFmpeg bugs would be a hard sell in this environment, imho.