They're not offering money to affected customers, they're giving discounts on phones that aren't discounted currently - which you would have known if actually, you know, read the article:
"Choosing the $100 Google Store credit might seem the better option, but there is a caveat there, too. The discount applies only to Pixel phones and only to devices that are not otherwise on sale."
So you're defending Google who apparently released;
- Some engineers home built kernel which could literally contain whatever the hell problems.
- Halved the battery size ( "LSN-tagged batteries assigned the "debug" profile can see capacity reduced from 3,080 milliamp hours (mAh) to 1,539 mAh.")
Maybe you should stop defending Google when they've obviously fucked up.