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Chrome is installed by default in android. The choice won't be preferred choice if website starts to put message like "Works best with Google Chrome".

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No it isn't - that is a choice made by phone vendors to include it, but they are perfectly free to ship their phones with firefox, or opera, or no browser at all.

The android OS has no knowledge of chrome and it doesn't get any special handling or abilities like iOS/Safari.

The Android OS has no knowledge of Chrome, but AIUI the licencing for Play Services basically forces you into installing it

I am unable to uninstall Chrome from my Android phone. That seems pretty special.

Samsung by default has their own chromium based browser as the default.

Websites already have to do that, because Safari still lacks a number of web technologies that get picked up faster on Chrome and Firefox.

But they can’t on mobile. Which is now a bigger part of the web.

Sure they can.

"The Reddit experience isn't complete in your browser. Please download the official app to continue:"

They can on Android.

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