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> so this isn't as bad as it seems.

I'm not so sure, it's not bad.

If Google decided to remove, for sake of example, add-ons. Would un-Googled Chromium be able to keep it?

If Google decides to remove addons then it would start losing users fast, and I think we’d find a fork that kept them more than viable. In this sense chrome is very different to for example Internet Explorer where no such fork was possible.

Chrome on mobile doesn't support extensions, where presumably it has the largest marketshare anyway.

Implying people on mobile know there is an alternate browser. I've seen people not know how to open Google drive, let alone go to the Play store, download FFox and add ad blocker.

We'll find the answer to this question at the end of the year when manifest v2 extensions are removed

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