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Don't gate keep what? That's such a lazy way of shutting down criticism. People are responsible for taking consumer decisions that don't ruin their future prospects. At least in the case of using browsers, regular folks can be forgiven since decisions that destroy the web ecosystem are taken before they use those anti-features. But 'nerds' have the foresight to see it coming - if they keep using Chrome, then it's pure laziness. They are responsible for letting this happen by not communicating enough and not raising a voice to warn others. In any fields, it's the job of the experts to inform others about potential pitfalls. In tech, that role belongs to nerds. If you aren't doing that then you probably don't have what it is needed to be a 'nerd'.
Back to my point. We wouldn't be in this state if 'nerds' did their job in the first place.