Surprised about all the fuzz. The good part about Chrome is one may create many sessions/users in Chrome. So, I use one dedicated Chrome user to access Google services and use another not logged into Google user in a different session for everything else. There is really no problem if one knows how to use Chrome.

Really good part is that it's possible to create a shortcut to a site/service from a particular user session in Chrome and launch that shortcut as a headless standalone window that looks like Windows native app, not a browser. The shortcut is connected to the user session it was created from. So, for example, I have Gmail icon on my desktop and taskbar that launches a dedicated window to access mail without even starting Chrome browser session for Google user. Simultaneously I have Chrome opened with another, not Google, user/session. Problem solved--check mail, calendar, whatever in one sandboxed environment and browse the web in another one.