There’s plenty of anecdata from the employees. When I first joined Google 9 years ago I was terrified of not being as good to google as google was to me. I bled the google colors.
The last time someone asked me what it’s like to work there, I said “it’s just a job” on instinct.
There is nothing wrong with being "just a job", it most likely always was, the rest was just in your head.
It's better for the company to help the delusional embrace the "it's just a job" mentality ASAP so that they and the rest of us might be spared the weekly public hissy fit.
The last time someone asked me what it’s like to work there, I said “it’s just a job” on instinct.