The thing about running out of inodes is that the format command scales them with the size of the drive, and the default is 1 inode per 16KB. So for a standard google account at 2TB or maybe 5TB you'd have 125 million or 312 million inodes.

They've basically gone and set it up like "largefile" mode, 1 inode per 1MB, forced upon all users. That's a bad default and an even worse mandate.