Comment by RetroTechie

It is: builds being painful enough that it's near impossible for smaller distro's to maintain a Chromium package, is community-hostile in itself.

A true community project is flexible w/ respect to dependencies, builds in a way that's doable by anyone who puts in some effort, and sends bugfixes in dependencies upstream so that -normally speaking- project can build against common (versions of) system libraries.

Doing the exact opposite screams vendor lock-in disguised as an open source effort. Of course no surprise this coming from Google (also notice similarities with the Android project).