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> But do you trust that every web extension that will exist will not abuse that full access? I sure don't.

I sure don't.

But that is not in my threat model because I have zero intention of ever installing every web extension that will exist.

In my threat model the evil parties are the advertising/spyware industry (which includes google) so I want powerful browser extensions to help with that problem.




Your threat model isn't universal to the billion users of Chrome.




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