Ease of use from an administration perspective. Google provides great tools for admins to be able to manage fleets of chromebooks. From your average user's per

Ease of use from an administration perspective. Google provides great tools for admins to be able to manage fleets of chromebooks. From your average user's perspective, it also generally looks nicer than lxde and other lightweight DEs (though that's entirely subjective). For technical users, there's probably not a good reason not to just use a lightweight linux distro, but technical users aren't really their target audience.