The article is about Chrome, which is a monopoly-positioned product, making a change, upon where the author has stated that as such, EV is really dead. I am not sure why talking about Chrome here would be an "odd focus". When the dominant party does something, it means a lot more than when a minority party does something.

EV has issues, which the article exaggerates (Troy Hunt has amazingly good services, but absolutely terrible opinions), whilst failing to recognize that the alternative is completely useless.