> "it's not like every department/team has an unwritten goal to push Chrome at the expense of everything else."

It often feels like it, yes. Could it be that you don't see it because you are already using Chrome?

I use Edge on my Windows gaming machine (for minimal maintenance, I install drivers, Steam, and that's pretty much it) and configured Edge to clean everything including cookies on exit, like a permanent stateless Private Mode available for the occasional search.

End result: many Google apps (Search, Maps, YouTube, and probably many others) constantly display huge "Get Chrome" banners, that end up not only painful for the user experience, but contain plain lies: "A more modern, faster browser" says one, whereas Edge/Firefox/Chrome are now objectively in the same ballpark.

This constant soliciting across vast swaths of the web by one dominant actor controlling the end-to-end experience is abusive.