In fairness, that easily can be an actual personal opinion; consider that "people who work at Google" is almost certain to be filtered to "people who aren't too bothered by Google's behavior" in the first place, and then they work in an environment that exposes them to the values that create Google's behaviors.

My guess is that people who juggle multiple browsers and who want actively want a null default are nonexistent but the people who are confused when opening links after installing a second app that works as a http handler changing the flow are.

A better thing is the TWRP option to "format system partition."