Uh... Microsoft can't really win against Google with tactics like this.
Google is the one creating a web essentially bound to whatever Chrome does, supports, or doesn't support.
Google is the one creating a web essentially bound to whatever Chrome does, supports, or doesn't support.
Why do you think this? What is stopping Microsoft from changing the code?
If Microsoft doesn't completely fuck up privacy again there won't be any more reason to switch to Chrome.
Okay, so what effect does Edge moving to Chromium have? If you didn't care about Edge due to its marketshare then why does it matter what engine it uses?
More and more I'm convinced the alarm is just due to a bad mental model of how code works. There is no pull request, there's just Microsoft building whatever they want.