The (free) Google desktop suite has so many visible fails, it constantly surprises me. Gmail search gives a superset of results. Contacts editing is so slow, it must be doing something artificial behind the scenes. Contacts and Calendar entries rescroll back to the beginning whenever you change context. Even Gmail Labels are sorted differently between desktop and mobile, and navigating within a Label contents can lead you to a dead end that makes you reload Gmail.com from scratch.

Very few at Google work at client side stuff, most sought after positions are many layers down the stack like machine learning, distributed infrastructure, programming languages or operative systems.

Right when you phrase things like that it does sound silly, but that's not what the google homepage is, nor is a literal webapp comparable to a desktop app in terms of load time (?!?).

Chromium at least is open source. Make it use less memory.