Thank you for calling this out. I feel like there is a psyops campaign paid for by Google denouncing any organization/tech that doesn't blindly follow their non-standard standards.
Google has a very large share of developers' minds.
They have a large network of "developer advocates" whose only job is to promote Google and Chrome under the guise of promoting web standards. And, of course, these "web advocates" will often go out of their way to vilify other browsers.
They own web.dev where they push out propaganda pieces and present their own work as fait accompli often without as much as mentioning that no, these are not standards.
Coupled with the fact that Chrome is actually the most dev-friendly browser, and you have huge swaths of dev community lapping up whatever Chrome throws over the wall without a single second thought.
Then presuming you use Firefox, the only viable non-Chromium alternative that’s mature enough to fit your implicit preference, you’re surely aware there are a wide variety of things not supported in that browser too. If you’re inclined to look for patterns, you’ll find that quite a lot of them overlap with Safari—either for the same privacy-respecting reasons, or the same standards process-respecting reasons, or the same second implementation in the standardization process reasons.
It’s good that both browsers are a hindrance to Google just shipping stuff and that stuff becoming a de facto web standard. It’s even good that they have different priorities because that gives them different perspectives from which to catch mistakes before they’re almost totally irreversible.
This is absolutely true in my experiences. I don't think I've genuinely met one Chrome user who hasn't beamed at the prospect of using Safari, yet in light discussions they seem to promote Google products extensively.
