It's 2020 and the "Personal Computer" paradigm is past its expiration date.
Want to keep hobbying with Windows and manage your "PC" like a pet, good luck with that!
Hardware should be managed like cattle with a cloud native setup if you ask me.
Racehorse owners loose 90 cent on every dollar invested, cowboys fly helicopters.
In a way I understand them. Google wanting to track you is nefarious but still, the security from viruses/hackers/cryptolocking viruses is unmatched for a Chromebook or an iPad.
My own father wants privacy, has has Apple products, he doesn't want (i/any)Cloud, I buy him a Synology NAS saying the data is his, then Photos libraries go corrupt because the NAS does not have APFS attributes (damn thing works for months until it doesn't). What a nightmare. And I'm explaining all this to a man that doesn't really understand where his Browser ends and the internet starts. So he will wonder if his data is on his Macbook because he can see it in the browser logged into the Synolgy. And then he won't close the browser because the Synology is backing up... It's pretty complex if you think about it. I can understand all the distrust.
We literally have magical powers at our fingertips. People however do not want to spend money on the software that makes this possible, period.
We still have companies like Coke that sell sugar water and propel a tsunami of obesitas at scale with an advertisement budget that only recently is surpassed by Google's annual profit.
There is advertisement and advertisement, helping every business with tools to sell more products and services is moving us forward. Google's Chrome OS offering is a clear business contract which has a paid option.
It is up to you if you want to keep using it for free. I hope more of "us" can convince more people to start paying for software services like GSuite and Chrome OS.
And Apple's iCloud runs on Google's Cloud Spanner. So it's the same "server" anyway.