According to the article as cited in this comment, we do know the reason and a rush job to meet a deadline is precisely why.

When people are talking about dissatisfaction with AI usage, in this context they specifically mean Llama and GenAI. Google translate may use LLMs as part of their translation model, but it doesn’t make up the whole pipeline and will work completely differently than copy pasting some text into an LLM and telling it to translate something.