Great story! This is something I've been contemplating a lot lately. Chrome used to be the very first program I would install on a new computer; it still is, in fact, but more out of habit than anything else, and I barely use it. A part of my somewhat newfound desire to be Chrome-free is a desire to get away from using Google's services for a lot of my personal data (though finding a new home for the mass amount of photos they are storing for me for free is going to be "fun"), but mostly is has been the fact that the only devices that run Chrome well are Chromebooks. And while I love Chromebooks, I can't get everything I need done on them, and using Chrome elsewhere just doesn't feel nearly as good, not when, as you mentioned, Safari is super speedy on my M1 Mac (and baked into all of my iOS devices, too). It doesn't even feel as smooth as Edge on my Surface (or Firefox on both). And anywhere besides in Chrome OS, Chrome is a massive battery hog, to the point that I wonder how Chromebooks have such excellent battery life (to me, this makes me feel like Google could make Chrome more power effecient if they wanted to). Nowadays I only use Chrome for one thing: editing Medium stories. Specifically, running Grammerly's extension to check for any egregious errors that I've overlooked, because it seems to be hit or miss whether Grammerly works on Medium in other browsers besides Chrome. But I still write my Medium stories in Safari or Firefox first, only switching to Chrome at the very end before I publish. Once that gets figured out, well... Chrome's days are numbered for me.