One must be flexible

It looks exactly the same to me

The recreated g makes my scalp itch

I can see why Google made it that way,
Simply bcz while writing the alphabet "G", we are always trained to pull the bottom right part towards the center, most handwritings and fonts observe this..
hence the Recreated G is weird..

Typography 101

That is really interesting to see.

No, it doesn't look awkward at all.

Idgaf, but i prefer the second one. The original logo disturbs me