Nope, I have the last 16" Intel MBP and Chrome chugs along just fine for days and weeks on end. I pretty much only close it for Chrome prompted app updates or m

Nope, I have the last 16" Intel MBP and Chrome chugs along just fine for days and weeks on end. I pretty much only close it for Chrome prompted app updates or macOS prompted system updates. edit: It might be worth purging your Chrome files out of the various ~/Library locations.