Likely because they never intended "developer mode" to be "develop on the device" mode, but more a "test the web app" mode. ChromeOS is first and foremost a we

Likely because they never intended "developer mode" to be "develop on the device" mode, but more a "test the web app" mode. ChromeOS is first and foremost a web terminal. That Google recently started introducing Android apps on there do not really change this, as most Android apps are just frontends for web services.