>>stOnes+(OP)
Working on chromium codebase maintaining minimal fork is very hard. It requires a very competent and quite a large team (because lots of work to resolve merge conflicts) to just regularily apply a custom set of patches to newly released chromium versions.
It's like staying on a dancing elephant. And it requires MONEY. Lots of.
I suspect this is the desired result of Google to protect chromium despite it's opensource.