In fairness, they did compromise in such a way that you can still keep it disabled. If/when they do it again, they'll likely also keep a safety switch involved as before.
They caved because they were afraid that without Netflix they would lose market share but then they lost market share anyways. In the alternate universe where they didn't cave users mounted a pressure campaign against Netflix for blocking Firefox and that got the FTC's attention and Netflix was the one that caved .
In this scenario, you haven't removed the reason why people flew to Chrome though. In this alternate universe, you'd probably need to remove all the Chrome propaganda, installs by default, etc.
