They don't want you to opt out. Then they can't brag to the shareholders about Chrome being "AI Powered"
You're not even the customer when it comes to Google.
at this point you're barely the product either. You're more a passive platform for them to execute their strategy on.
I was not happy when they added Gemini to the top bar, in its own place that nothing else gets to use.
Don't forget the metric saying "99.97% of user have installed this" even though less than 1% of users know it exists, much less use it