Google doesn’t quite have that power - some of the things they have pushed have failed to gain traction, sometimes for very good reasons. For example, Object.ob

Google doesn’t quite have that power - some of the things they have pushed have failed to gain traction, sometimes for very good reasons. For example, Object.observe was a proposal that Google themselves eventually unshipped from the Chrome after the JS ecosystem roundly rejected adopting the paradigms it enables, most notably for React’s unidirectional data flow (it always felt like a proposal meant specifically to optimize Angular). Google also backtracked on Web Components, choosing to revise the spec after some ideas became awkward when combined with the emergence of ES modules. The other browser vendors play an incredibly meaningful role, as well as the frontend web developer community at large.