This is CRITICAL! Why have a the Chrome Store for quality control when there is none?

The OP article links to:

"The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified (find the list here) by researchers from MyCrypto and PhishFort."
https://medium.com/mycrypto/discovering-fake-browser-extensions-that-target-users-of-ledger-trezor-mew-metamask-and-more-e281a2b80ff9

and:

"Back in February, the company removed 500 malicious extensions after they were caught serving adware and sending users' browsing activity to C2 servers under the control of attackers."
https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/chrome-extension-malware.html