Why wouldn't they merge that with the Chrome bookmark sync? Many years back there used to be a section in Google Docs (I think that's what it was called at the time, well before the switch to Drive) where I could see all of my bookmarks; if I was away from my personal computers, I could still see the links without syncing chrome. I switched to Xmarks just for that feature.
Granted, now I always have my phone with me which has the sync. But it still seems odd that they wouldn't give us web access to that data.
The old Google Bookmarks can't be merged with Chrome bookmark sync because Bookmarks uses tags while Chrome uses folders. The same URLs would end up getting duplicated in several folders.
Granted, now I always have my phone with me which has the sync. But it still seems odd that they wouldn't give us web access to that data.