Nothing baffling if you look at it this way: Within Chrome it's Chrome vs Android (and possibly a few other teams). To quote https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/ar

Nothing baffling if you look at it this way: Within Chrome it's Chrome vs Android (and possibly a few other teams). To quote https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th... --- start quote --- When performing Valley Kremlinology, it is useful to see Google policies as stemming from a conflict between internal pro-web and anti-web factions. We web developers mainly deal with the pro-web faction, the Chrome devrel and browser teams. On the other hand, the Android team is squarely in the anti-web camp. When seen in this light the pro-web camp’s insistence on copying everything appy makes excellent sense: if they didn’t Chrome would lag behind apps and the Android anti-web camp would gain too much power. While I prefer the pro-web over the anti-web camp, I would even more prefer the web not to be a pawn in an internal Google power struggle. But it has come to that, no doubt about it. --- end quote ---