Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block “View Source”

No they didn’t. It allows the machine owner to block use of view source:

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1458730029819514883?...

As the thread indicates, admins already do this via browser extensions that are often horribly implemented. This is an officially sanctioned alternatives for e.g. machines where users take exams.

Here's Jake Archibald's defence against the decision - https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1458730029819514883

In an enterprise deployment? I see no problem with that - enterprises should be able to customize almost anything (see Windows Group Policy).

Heck, I’d probably disable View Source for the non-technical departments so they wouldn’t accidentally click it, get confused, and file a ticket.

This is the slippery slope to the NFT people blocking right click!

No, they didn't. How did this make it to the front page?

Doctor, my arm hurts. Not to worry we'll chop it off. This type of solution.

What are they going to deprecate hitting F12 and 'hacking' a webpage next?