alt Hacker NewsThe first point isn't meaningful from a user's perspective.
There's no difference between me trusting you and you pushing malware to me vs you selling your deploy access to a third party and the third party pushing malware to me.
Especially if selling the extension doesn't remove the old one from the browser automatically and reset it's rating to 0, download count to 0 and remove all the comments/reviews.
I think in the chrome extension store you can't even change the email account attached to the extension. The only correct way to transfer an extension seems to be deleting it and having the new party create a new one.