Because the Chrome team makes huge, breaking changes to their code APIs with breathtaking rapidity. If you don't update that often, it'll just get harder and harder and harder to do.
Google can do this (in general) because they have a single source tree (although IIRC Chromium isn't actually part of that). Point is: when you only care about your own code, as the Chrome devs do, third parties are in a really bad place to try and stay current.
Google can do this (in general) because they have a single source tree (although IIRC Chromium isn't actually part of that). Point is: when you only care about your own code, as the Chrome devs do, third parties are in a really bad place to try and stay current.