Hard disagree. Google holds browser PWN contests and pay people for reporting bugs. If they can find the bugs themselves, they won't have to pay others. Also, there is a business interest, controlling the browser market helps their data collection and ad business. People could drop Chrome like they drop IE if Chrome does not perform - there are other browsers. "inaction for the past decade or more." I don't follow Chrome dev but this is entirely false.

Well I do follow Chrome dev. I'm in the browser code all the time. There is a ton of junk code that could be cleaned up and simplified, if that was their priority, without any special tooling needed whatsoever, just time and care. Their priority is not writing bug free code, but in adding more and more dubious 'features', and using this opportunity to further market their new AI god to young and impressionable programmers, as the other poster explained.