And with this new change, presumably in your daily profile, your browser remains signed out also.
It's really easy and doesn't impact at all on workflow, if you want your Gmail you just click the user button, and click Google. You could even set that user's homepage to Gmail.
That said, you could also just switch to Firefox or Brave.
(Copy pastaing myself. With an addendum: I don't know if this will actually result in less of your private data compromised, but it seems plausible)