No, there isn't a need for appreciation. We all cheered at that time where Google was building a great JavaScript engine and a browser around that. But in hindsight it is clear, that Google was just running the old embrace, expand, extinguish playbook on a scale that we where unable to comprehend. We would've be just fine with Firefox, webkit and maybe Microsoft would have made Internet explorer somehow not total shit. Google captured the whole web as a market and we used the opportunity to build endless JS frameworks in top and went wild with all the VC and advertising money.