I hope this gets found as the anti-competitive move that it is. They're taking advantage of their near-monopoly that they have in the browser space to force people to view more of their own ads. It's disgusting.
The other huge change that most people don't know about, is the move from a persistent background.js script to a sevice-worker will just make a number of use-cases impossible or very hacky
Yep.
Chrome is even crippling some of their own APIs, like chrome.tabCapture (not available in service workers, and in mv3 will be "foreground only")
AKA, if you want to use chrome.tabCapture in mv3, you have to run it in a tab. And because that tab can be closed at any time, you need to serialize megabytes of data to the chrome.storage api every few seconds.