I forgot to mention this: Every time I install a new Linux system, I give the "factory" UI a chance before, inevitably, giving up and switching to MATE. Well, Gnome Shell was actually pretty crisply responsive on this clunker. And it has an "app store". And that has Chrome in it. Well well! But that installed a FlatPak. Bloat, bloat, bloat. Luckily Chrome is still directly "natively" installable as an RPM that actually uses the OS's shared libraries.
Sure it’s using system ones and not the vendored ones? I mean chrome as packaged by Google, not, say, Fedora’s Chromium (which is bent and coerced to use system libraries as much as possible).
Good point, so I checked. It has a few private libraries but for the most part uses the system ones. I think I can paste this output without leaking anything personal...
Um, okay then. It's just that Chrome's source tree has a hefty 3rdparty/ directory with everything in it, and it's not easy to say when it falls back on rolling its own when building.