I don't think anyone can give Google the benefit of doubt after Manifest v3, Privacy Sandbox/FLoC, Web Environment Integration, and Android developer verification etc, all of which faced strong opposition, some of which they abandoned. That's easily four just from the last few years. See the pattern? On the surface, they talk about security and privacy (and they do, to some extent), but at the core they will benefit Google's various businesses and their dominant positions while hurting the ecosystem and competition. Honestly I can't even think of another big tech that acts in such a bad faith.

Not to mention Google's history of pushing some non-standard behavior into Chrome single handedly to make it the de facto behavior, ignoring voices questioning the motivation, timeline and technical implementation. They are discussed here on HN and everywhere else and easy to find.

Coming back to this, my response is the same: the status quo works, why change it? Similar to how Mozilla responds to replacing user agent with "Hints API" nonsense. I don't want another way to get my location, because I already block all location requests. Google wants site owners to get location more easily out of unsuspecting users. I can't see how this is good for anyone but Google and its friends.