Yeah, I liked how simple and lightweight Opera feels, but I think most of my hesitation was that I have quite a few handy extensions in Chrome that I know (or assume) aren't available in Opera... and partly laziness haha. I also really like the customisable search shortcuts in Chrome which I'm not sure you can do in Opera. (Edit: you totally can.)

But I think at some point I still might switch to Opera for a week or so and give it a good bash and see if I can live without the add-ons.