Ahahahaha!
You know, I’ve been hearing that since the late 1990s. And it wasn’t true then, isn’t true now, and wont be true for a long time. Not that Google isn’t doing some interesting things. But they are operating at a scale that is beyond mere mortals and very little of it applies to anyone else.
I see these “firewall is dead” articles pop up about every five years, and every time a vendor is trying to peddle some bullshit product or service.