@svoisen One fun game to play to imagine that future is to use the web the way many Android users do, which is to say just through the Google Search app. When you visit a site in that, you're not really taken to Chrome, you're still in Search. The settings and behaviour are slightly different.
As far as I can tell the Chrome folks are in denial that they're digging their own grave. But then again, to work for Google is to be in denial in the first place.