[donmcronald]

The current system benefits large companies and detriments small developers, so I think it would probably just open the door for large companies to take over all the popular extension types.

If uBlock Origin stopped supporting Chrome, AdBlock would fill that void. If Honey has problems, an executive from Ebay calls an executive from Google and it's fixed instantly, so there's no incentive for them to participate. In fact, anyone making a decent amount of money isn't going to want to change the system.