> Google's monopoly is more aligned with the interest of web users', yes they will try to throw anti user and anti-competitive things in there (and they should be shamed for that), but they have also done a ton of work to move the platform forward

I disagree, and it appears that you're approaching this mainly from the perspective of web developers, whose interests are not necessarily aligned with web users either. In fact, web developers nowadays are notoriously user-hostile.

As a web user, I'm perfectly fine with continuing to miss many of the features that the article author believes are "missing".