As long as devs keep drinking the Chrome kool-aid it won’t. Developers actually have a lot of pull but do not exercise it. As the job market shifts to more blue collar workers. There is less expertise required and those workers are responsible for running tools they don’t understand rather than coding and making ideas. Google’s best interest is to keep development behind closed doors until they’re ready for the public to use their tech, rather than having new tech developed by other companies or via open source.

That might be like saying, in 2001, there isn't a Microsoft-free future for desktop computing. Apple gained a little market share since then, but it's a mostly moot point because of the rise of mobile. There's going to be a next big thing, and there's a good chance it won't be Google...or Google will just buy it.