Docs overrides right click because there's things you'd naturally want to do in a word processor with right click (format, link, comment, etc). Because docs shows a custom menu on right click, the browser will not expose the default menu, and without the default menu, there's no JS copy/paste event.
Browser extensions have more access, and that's why a browser extension re-enables the functionality.
So it was a design choice: the Docs team decided that giving users all these other right click actions was more important than allowing the user to right click to copy/paste without an extension (since most people use the keyboard shortcuts anyway).