they need two whole server racks to process the auto-delete function that runs their support email backend ;)

Do you expect Google (or any other publicly traded corpo facing pressure from shareholders) to finance hosting of competing products?

I don't think it's a reasonable expectation from US corporations so we need to take their marketing with a grain of salt.

All the major Chrome-like competitors like Brave and Edge already uses their own sync engine, so the only users they're punishing are the users of Chromium.