The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web companies are careful about starting a new service or adding a new feature because it means committing to supporting it for a long time. Google just starts 1 billion projects a year and kills everything that isn't a smash hit meaning you can't depend on anything they release.
Although about 70% of this list was rightfully killed. Stuff like youtube for 3ds and then it includes things that were simply renamed or updated.
Google doesn't only kill unpopular things. If it did, you can depend on those things that have already become popular by not being an early adopter, which then becomes a chicken-and-egg problem that at least provides some strategic level of negative feedback to Google.
I started seeing it again after a long time, felt sad at the products I missed, felt at the products they discontinued after a really long time, and then I realized that some of these products were superseded by other products that were nearly similar OR they were merged into bigger products.
I'm guessing it's using static hosting so server side rendering is out of the question, but if you wanted to make it work without JavaScript a static site generator could be used to avoid having to maintain 200 list items manually.
Oops. I misunderstood. I was really confused by this whole thread until I went back and looked at the page source and realized the person I replied to meant that with JS turned off, the page is blank.
OK, trying my hardest to view this deprecation in a positive light: The 5% commission was already minimal but by removing payments altogether, Google proves it has no interest in monetizing Chrome extensions as a platform.