Is it though? Security is a fickle thing. Unless there's a a big enough community behind it with security experts examining the changes, I'm not sure I'd trust some random person's changes to not introduce any exploits.

I'm with this.

I'd actually like a fork of chromium with no googley phone home features. Maybe put timeouts on cookies and bunch of other things.

Nope, my objection is to the mindset of making more changes than are necessary to release it. If their opinion had been restricted to “for removing Google” rather than also “and some other stuff”, it’d inspire a lot more trust in their long-term intentions. Being able to see diffs does not improve my trust in their judgement or reasoning.