Also keep in mind that Edge is chromium based now and has the same issue. And is becoming the standard by MS and thus the impact is increased now because of this
Sure, lockdown and increased VPN use makes sense as to why this got painful in march. However I expect GP was quibbling with this part of your statement:
>Furthermore if I remember correctly this "feature" in chrome was enabled in a version which was distributed to our clients maybe a month before the lockdowns so there was little time to see the effect while clients were still in the office
Which claims that the feature was rolled out recently.