The flaw is that when you have 50k employees, you have much greater flexibility and resources with regard to human resources (and likely almost every other resource) to move around than a company with 200 employees.

Additionally, we are invited to "Contrast that with Google which has 72k employees". So, Google, which has almost exactly 20% more employees (after removing all retail and help center Apple employees), is supposed to be so much different, and an example of a large company? At least the comparison to Microsoft has more than a doubling of employees.

The argument that Apple works the way they do because they run their teams lean is fine, but let's not start acting like they're not a large company just because their culture is intentionally different in some aspects.

Edit: To be clear, by objection is to the premise "Apple is not a big company." which was the leading statement of the comment I replied to.