The issue is not a technical one. It's political. Even in the case of IE, the issue wasn't a technical one. The issue was that MS held a monopoly on the web. T

The issue is not a technical one. It's political. Even in the case of IE, the issue wasn't a technical one. The issue was that MS held a monopoly on the web. They might not have abused it the same way Google is trying to today, but the specific means of abuse isn't the primary problem. Let me use your words to illustrate my point better. You said, "... chromium is making the web a better platform in real-time", but it is not "the web" that chromium is improving, but Google's private version of it.