It already happened to some Chrome extension[1], where older owner receive deal where they receive lots of money.
This is the first time I heard of a case like that. I doubt an extension from a popular developer like Solflare is going to suffer the same issue though, unless they ditch their platform because they got a huge offer for that. Looks like Chrome is looking to implement API changes to prevent such thing from happening too, so that's good to hear. Anyway, MetaMask reputation will take a hit if they allow fake apps to stay on their plug-ins ecosystem. CMIIW.