Binance does have the power of life or death on many small coins, and even some of the larger ones that we have just seen. The Launchpad program injects the first life breath into Bittorrent Token Tron only because it has a large audience exclusivity and a lot of marketing kung fu.
Because Google can determine the success of a website in terms of Binance's search ranking seems to have the same power over the token list and it's definitely not planning to stop there.
The elimination of Ethereum clearly makes no sense at this time, but the future in which crypto companies do business like that of technology and internet monopolies will now reveal everything Satoshi Nakamoto thought when he gave birth to Bitcoin a decade ago.