Other parties sat around and didn't come up with and implement a good protocol, did they? Which browsers have pipelining enabled, 15 years after the spec? And at least SPDY has some binary format, not the optimized-for-composition-in-notepad text format.
Just testing SPDY on a site I was building last year, it seemed to provide double digit speedups. Not bad for my effort of typing SPDY into nginx.conf.
So yeah, I dislike Google. I use FF and disconnect search. I hate Google's intrusiveness and anti privacy stance. But at least SPDY provides actual benefits today, versus complaining about standards.