No, that's not how the quote reads. It reads "If he made a decision about how the product would operate no legal, privacy, or security teams could contradict him."

So, if he says "we will deliberately expose private conversations directly to government agents", that's a product decision.

You are inventing your conclusion from nothing.

No, it's the Intercept that invented its own conclusion from out-of-context quotes from an interview with a disgruntled ex-employee. The only substance from that interview was that Google was being less open than they usually were. Zunger had a political objection, which was outside the scope of his field of work, and leadership dismissed it as unimportant. Zunger deemed this unfair. The Intercept chose to interpret that as Dragonfly completely bypassing security and privacy, which other Googlers on that team claim never happened.