Holding out because you are the only person who can make a change doesn't work as well with a company like Google with many overlapping developers.
Those plans come from management layers above not from the co-worker beside you. Blaming the developers when it usually starts with a vp trying to increase some metric for bonus time missing the key point that it is the organizational culture that demands, forbids and sets the rules for how employees operate. It starts at the top because if the ceo did not promote based in metric scores increasing the vp wouldn't create projects developers work on that the end user hates.
Those plans come from management layers above not from the co-worker beside you. Blaming the developers when it usually starts with a vp trying to increase some metric for bonus time missing the key point that it is the organizational culture that demands, forbids and sets the rules for how employees operate. It starts at the top because if the ceo did not promote based in metric scores increasing the vp wouldn't create projects developers work on that the end user hates.