> The evidence is the feature-full browser that was Chrome
Which has good support for what were already web standards, and good support for what became web standards through, among other things, Google's support, but you haven't yet provided any evidence that, in choosing which proposed new standards to support, Google was at all reluctant to oppose any that would have conflicted with the optimization work it was doing.
(Given how bad the performance state of the web was, then, it may be the case that the proposed web standards at the time wouldn't have conflcited at all with the kinds of optimizations that were on the table -- which still doesn't show the claimed change in attitude vis-a-vis optimization and web standards, just as change in environment.)