Look at where the internet was before google and all the tech that improved because of google. I think many people underestimate how much of the internet, web server hardware moved forward was directly or indirectly because of google. And many if not all the major web based companies that exsist is because of the tech google introduced and open sourced.

china net is a really interesting place

I am with you. I want to see a world where Google is nothing more than a search engine.

But in this case I don't think they are at fault. As far as I understand it they didn't they just over-optimize for their own browser, which is not quite the same as degrade performance on other browsers on purpose.