Fresh install of Chrome. https://i.imgur.com/4ZyuSNN.png Notice how little "No thanks" and "Choose what to sync are". Nice anti-pattern.
And if you simply sign in and don't choose anything, this is what you get https://i.imgur.com/XQSxwu5.png
And if you simply sign in and don't choose anything, this is what you get https://i.imgur.com/XQSxwu5.png
What, if anything, is wrong with this?
When people talk about employees at large tech companies being in a disconnected bubble of delusion, this is the kind of thing they must mean.
When I look at this page, these buttons both seem quite readable to me, and I don't feel that either of them is concealed or hard to press. I do not believe that this page is deceptive or misleading in any way. It clearly and directly tells you what it does. And let's not forget that it's not doing a bad thing, it's offering people a feature which appears to be popular. If you're particularly concerned about adding another layer of privacy defence on top of the already fairly formidable ones that you get by default, you can add your own passphrase to encrypt the information locally on each device, and you can examine the source in chromium if you want to be sure you know what it does.
If you're complaining that the people who designed the feature are trying to encourage people to use it, then frankly I think your complaint is unreasonable.