Well, the engine has to be there for all the apps that use a WebView and are expecting Chromium to embed that webview (in terms of utilizing any css/js quirks s

Well, the engine has to be there for all the apps that use a WebView and are expecting Chromium to embed that webview (in terms of utilizing any css/js quirks so that the experience is guaranteed consistent across vendors), so "deleting" chrome wouldn't do anything more than how deleting Safari on iOS just hides the app icon away [in App Library].