Yes, the atmosphere at most big tech companies is this way. Everyone writes their emails with a plastered-on fake smile.

The worst part is when people pretend that things are difficult. You can't just suggest that someone not waste time on an obviously bad idea; you must acknowledge that the team's development strategy is a complex, multifaceted governance problem, and many quarters of sync meetings will be necessary to drive the appropriate alignment with all stakeholders and establish prioritization and scheduling on an action item to form a spot committee that will deliberate on the necessity of a course correction.

It's suffocating, it produces terrible products, but it pays really well.