I’ve never bothered with Chrome on Apple machines thanks to the iCloud Keychain. Surely there are other services that can create stickiness.
Maybe this much ballyhooed trust in mobile Safari as the last bulwark against Chrome ubiquity is just an affectation of the HN set and not even something Apple cares about very much at all. Maybe you’ve all been placing your trust in a champion who’s uninterested in your fight.
As for me, I’m glad that Orion is an alternative if I ever was to switch away from Safari.