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You are under the mistaken assumption that Google maintains absolute power over the Chromium codebase.

It is very permissively licensed, and Microsoft’s Edge is so successful and Microsoft is contributing a ton upstream. In a few years time they will have de-facto equal say over where the codebase goes. If Google disagrees too much, we will in fact see a fork.

>>jorvi+(OP)
Edge and Firefox are each under 5% of web browsing (among desktop browsers, each under 10%), vs. Google with well over 50%.

Furthermore, from what I can tell, Edge users are predominantly former IE users (rather than coming from other browsers), and combined IE + Edge use is still declining over time.