I believe it's a mistake to assume that this change is solely to deliver features to users faster. There are all kinds of other things in Chrome other than end-

I believe it's a mistake to assume that this change is solely to deliver features to users faster. There are all kinds of other things in Chrome other than end-user features. One important thing would be security updates. Chrome also has mechanisms that feed back into core Google businesses, so this also might improve Google's ability to iterate on those faster, gather feedback and make business decisions faster, etc. Personally I want to avoid Google's "core business" as much as possible, so if that's a major reason for this change then it's even more motivation to stay off of Chrome. (This is all speculation, since Google doesn't really have any credibility to me anymore, so I won't believe any official reasons they have for doing this.)