Comment by LordDragonfang

>The internet did not appoint Google as the gatekeeper.

Uh, it kind of did, when internet-savvy early adopters (and developers) convinced all their friends, then family, then acquaintances, to switch to Chrome a decade ago.

I know there's probably a very large number of FOSS-only types on this site who would disagree with that assessment, and claim that they've always been in the Firefox camp, but the sheer market share of chrome clearly shows that they are the minority.

Everyone switched to chrome because they were tired of IE having too much power and not conforming to standards. Nowadays web devs often build chrome-first, using chromium-only features, and the shoe has almost migrated to the other foot.