Q: What compels me to use this over Safari?

A: nothing. Im a huge fan of chrome on the PC, and less so on android, but the IOS port offers nothing special...

1. No one-hand zoom (in fairness this applies to most other IOS browsers as well). This is one of my biggest pet peeves about IOS in general: WHY THE $@?! DO I HAVE TO USE ENGAGE MY OTHER $&@! HAND TO ZOOM IN ON PAGE!!! Android allows you to universally zoom via a double click+slide gesture, enabling complete one handed operation. Google included this gesture in their IOS port of google maps (go ahead and try it), so why not chrome too? If they added this theyd win me back as a browser user.

2. Its not noticeably faster or snappier than other IOS browsers,

3. no "reader mode". Safari introduced this feature to me; and I really love it.

sgordon777 about Google Chrome – The Fast and Secure Web Browser, v58.0.3029.