In fact, maybe sites should start recommending something like that. (Microsoft's wallet sense must be twinging.)
(I recently also switched back to Windows 10 after a decade+ on Mac OS. I never got satisfactory performance from Firefox on Mac, so part of trying it again was hoping that the perf story on Windows was better, which indeed it is.)
At this point I just don’t trust Google nor Chrome. All the incentives are there for Google to turn Chrome into adware. The evidence is pointing in that direction. And the trust is no longer there.
It’s funny to think about (and this is of course a gross caricature) but Chrome feels more and more like they took all the annoying adware/bloatware from the 2000s and disguised it in a browser—except they figured out how to do it without anybody noticing. Today, we are all Grandma.