My dad got a Chromebook and I was shocked at how shit the accessibility features were, considering their core markets seem to be kids and old people.

I assume Windows is doing better on that front than ChromeOS. MacOS sure as hell is.

It sounds like he's not even using it as a laptop, he can get some relatively powerful mini-PCs for around that price, as well.

That’s opting him in to Google’s data collection engine. I would not do that to my dad!

Chances are he's already using gmail, chrome, and google search. But yeah, Chromebook is a full-on google walled garden.

I got my dad to stop using Gmail, Chrome, and Google search. He uses DuckDuckGo now!

Well good for you. Still I think it's unusual. Any time I've tried to get anyone to use DuckDuckGo they look at me like I'm insane.

To be fair the build quality of a $200 Chromebook is pretty rubbish. The pixel is probably on par with Macbooks in terms of build quality but again that's so expensive you may as well get a macbook air.