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> Apple could create their own Apple Internet List, and demand through App Store policies that all browsers implement it or else.

They do by requiring that all apps (including Chrome) to use the Safari WebKit engine provided by the OS.

They actually justifies it by pointing to parental control and safe browsing.

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Now wait until they touch macOS with this policy. "So that our customers could be safer than ever."

Exactly. If you believe Apple's public statements, there's no reason they shouldn't have these restrictions on macOS, and in fact they're endangering users by not doing so.

Jokes aside, this is why I'm happy to see Microsoft investing in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). As a developer I'm glad to see solid options to MacOS emerging for running both modern web dev tools and mainstream commercial software.

I mean parental control wouldn't really be useful if you could just open, say FB messenger and "use" their built-in browser to bypass parental controls.

Nonsense, parental control can (and often does) block the installation of new apps. I don't need to be using Webkit just because I don't want my kid to install a 2nd browser.

Doesn’t matter if you block the installation of other browsers when you want to let your kid use Pinterest, Messenger, or the zillion other apps that have embedded browsers.

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