[juhzy]

Chrome keeps adding new QoL features and people will wonder why everybody uses Chrome.

"why would someone abuse this" shows an incredible naivete. Anything that can be abused will be abused.

[dictum]

The parent's non-specific "many moons ago" puts the date of such naivete long in the past, when Chrome was also adding a plethora of abusable APIs.

There was a kind of "if we don't expand the web platform, native apps from walled-garden app stores will take over" discourse at the time, from all browser implementors — less so from Apple, which could hedge its bets with the App Store.