Also avoid using ProtonMail Bridge if you value your emails. It's been silently corrupting/deleting your emails for years now. And Proton hasn't done a single thing to warn users about it. Instead they've been working on a complete rewrite which is far from completion. Meanwhile people are still discovering that their emails are disappearing.
> It makes no sense for them to add the touchbar to the base model 13" MBPs only to remove them from the higher end versions.
Well keep in mind that the first generation Arm MacBooks are basically the same old Intel laptops with their guts replaced. The next generation is probably going to be a completely new design.
Most likely the issue was resolved by the reboot, not by uninstalling Chrome. From my experience Mac OS tends to slow down after a few days. Animations and scrolling gets choppy and there's nothing I can do to fix it, short of rebooting.