Perhaps. Security teams in general (including the ones at Google) are in the business of compromises. Sometimes they end up making the wrong ones. Many of the people I know who are at Google joined, at least in part, to be in a position to help the company do better.
Disclaimer: I work on security there.
Yeah, and a lot of stuff that Google security researchers do directly affects and influences (for the worse, I'd say) the current (and future) users.