Therea an extremely strong loud section of people who declare this to be true, but I don't see that. I don't see how they see that.
I read blink-dev a couple times a year pretty closely. This does not look like the destruction of the web. It looks like a team collaborating well with standards bodies, experimenting responsibly with origin trials, and pouring in huge effort to this engine.
It doesn't at all matter how it looks on the mailing list; What matters is the web.
The reality is, that with every passing day, there are more websites that break on anything that isn't Chrome, despite Firefox (last independent man standing) supporting all the latest things, and Safari (which has a monopoly on iPhone) supporting recent though not latest standards.
As a firefox user, I now find myself having to resort to Chrome two times a week on average to use websites I must use (banks, government, insurance companies, etc...). It used to be once a month about a year ago, and once a year after IE6 died.
I read blink-dev a couple times a year pretty closely. This does not look like the destruction of the web. It looks like a team collaborating well with standards bodies, experimenting responsibly with origin trials, and pouring in huge effort to this engine.