I will forget it was changed in less than 7 days. The change is not intrusive.
I agree that the simplifying of icons has become tired, but I started asking myself a question to help me not get worked up over it. If I didn't know the history of this icon and I saw it for the first time, is it memorable in a good way or a bad way? Most of the time the answer is neither. It's unfortunate though how much time is spent by designers and devs on this sort of thing. And it's not just designers, it's people hours and A/b testing and compliance and red tape.
If I was a designer, being able to say I worked on the logo of something as big as chrome would feel like achievement. But in the bigger picture, it's hard to make novel design choices in these redesigns.
I learned to not think about it as much, just like I learned to make do with different fonts because I code across a lot of different systems.