This is obviously wrong. I work in YouTube and c++ is my primary language. Infact more code is being written in c++ than any other language at google
The point was about the castrated C++ dialect imposed by Google C++ style guide, which even goes against some of the C++ best practices as expressed by the C++ Core Guidelines.
In fact, AOSP has plenty of examples on how not to write C++ in this day and age.
Chrome.
If you are drawing conclusions from what you saw at Google, you have opinions about some other language that only just happens to be compatible with a C++ compiler.