My sticking point was that I wanted AdBlock like on FF and Chrome allows extensions now including Adblock.
It's a very long story. From the time Google announced it and through the alpha and beta tests, there were millions of comments on thousands of boards.
Use a non-google search engine and look for them (in NNTP files) if you want details.
Basically, it boils down to Chrome being a tool that controls content, offers some cool features, and has massive holes.
NSA did a better job with their 'secure linux'. And nobody uses that either.
/johnny