Very true. That said, with rapid development of standards, one year between releases is far too long. This is part of the reason that Mozilla is trying to release four major versions of Firefox in 2011 (although, knowing the glacial speed of development at Mozilla, I doubt that).
In my experience, Chrome has always been rock solid, much like Safari. In fact, I run the dev version and can count the number of times it's crashed on one hand. As for the bloat, perhaps that is a subjective comment. I would say that Google is at least adding features to Chrome. I was extremely underwhelmed at the release of Safari 5. This feeling becomes obvious when you remember that Safari Reader was a
major feature when, at least for me, it's not really all that useful or impressive. And, on the Safari
features page, why is Java support and a downloads window listed? It's not as if that's impressive or unique.
One thing I will give Safari is the impressive PDF support which is far more impressive than Chrome's. That, and web archive support. That's the one feature I really wish Google would implement.
To each their own though. I have nothing against Safari and respect it as a quality browser. It just seems as if everything I want out of a browser is in Chrome.