Apple feels the same way about the App Store.Why is a company being punished for doing a good job? Clearly they are doing something right and just what people want, otherwise they never would have gotten so big in the first place.
I agree with you — people choose to use Chrome even with all the data collection.
Besides, whoever decides to buy Chrome will implement their own data mining system which then probably ties back to Google in some form since they are the king of search and ads. So, ok, the DoJ threw in a hurdle.