A huge number of people only use the internet with their phones, and Google is doing their best to tie the entire system to Google services and the Chrome browser.
Exactly. And why the phones are sold with preinstalled with all the Google software and services and it is difficult to remove them if not via adb cli ?
If they are the best in the World as someone else has stated, the people will flock to install them on a "vanilla" phone, right ?
All your SMS, contacts, emails, location positions, photos ... One time my mother was at a funeral at a cemetry, nearby is a cafè. 20 minutes later she got a notification from Google : "How was your experience at the cafè ?" What have this to do with their own products, their free tier levels, the freedom to not watch Youtube or use Gmail ?