You're right. Chrome spanks the crap out of any CPU I use it on!
Really, I read this and laughed. Plenty of people are buying current i7 and i9 CPUs for "gaming" with tiny GPUs and probably spending way more time in a web browser than any other app, hands down. Many of them will use integrated graphics for their entire life spent plugged in and doing whatever.
If you are buying an i7/i9 CPU for any scientific or heavy lifting, non-gaming purpose then you are already doing it wrong. But most consumers don't read benchmarks, they buy what's available. And cheap. Cheap helps a lot.