I have participated in such audits (and actually worked on things like GDPR compliance on rather large corporations). Yes, they're a ton of work. But that's what the job is, sorry if now developers need to work to undo anticompetitive crap they pulled in their products.
> I mean, if you did a good job, then this is no extra work for you.
And now we're at
> What of it? Comes with the size and money.
which is quite the difference. It no longer matters if you did a good job, suck it up and take the audit?
It also wholly misses what the root-comment Googler was complaining about. You may feel that Google as a whole "deserves" this somehow, but the engineer was saying it feels like a slap in the face to everyone who was working hard on DMA compliance.
> Why should trillion dollar companies get a pass? Because some engineer will feel bad about a probe that is a mile over their head?
No, but this is a remarkably unsympathetic take to someone who is venting. You're looking to Google-bash, and that's fine, I'm usually happy to join you in that, but look past the megacorp to the person who is pissed that their hard work and that of their team seems pointless.
