A few releases back, Chrome started using a Material Design UI on desktop. If you don't like it (on some window managers or GTK themes it's ugly), you can disable it.

1. Visit chrome://flags/
2. Search (Ctrl+F) for "Material Design"
3. Switch to "Non-Material"
4. Restart Chrome

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Chrome's default theme should now be pretty again.