Opera is not a scam, I use it alongside chrome because of some extensions... Anyway chrome is way better because of speed in loading webpages on slow connections.
Well it's being developed under the person who wrote javascript so yeah there will be hype and people with privacy issues don't want to use chrome as the Google collects data right inside of chrome.
I use firefox almost everywhere a part from my work and study computer where I got to use either chrome or edge because of the developer tools. For me having different browsers on different machines to surf the web is a nosense because of bookmarks
Anyway chrome is way better because of speed in loading webpages on slow connections.