[Yoric]

The problem is not as bad as IE, for sure.

However, Chromium is just as much a strategic asset for Google. If Google were to decide to have APIs that work only for Google properties (hint: they already do), they can introduce them in Chromium and none of the Chromium-based browsers can reasonably decide to go in a different direction.

Now, if you recall, Google/Alphabet has interests in many pies around the world. It's not very hard to imagine how Google/Alphabet could introduce APIs that would let them leverage their web monopoly towards other fields. Think credit cards, banking, shopping, wearables, DRMs, cars, ...

Again, just as in the Microsoft era, I don't know that Google will do that. But just as in the Microsoft era, it's a question of how much power you are willing to put in the hands of a single monopoly.