The problem is that OP used Chromium as an example of a project "focused on user control" when in fact it is actively trying to remove control from the users's

The problem is that OP used Chromium as an example of a project "focused on user control" when in fact it is actively trying to remove control from the users's hands. I was citing extensions and Manifest v3 as an example of that, I don't care about the feature and what people can do to go around this.