[solardev]

Why can't similar debates happen around a single engine?

Mozilla is largely Google funded anyhow. If they wanted to drop funding and go their own way they could do so anytime.

[kitsunesoba]

Google has far too much power over the direction of Blink for any meaningful debate to take place. They have a tendency to steamroll through already and this behavior would no doubt intensify if Blink were the only game in town.

It would have a far better chance of working if the Chrome/Blink team were spun out of Google into a nonprofit that is protected from the financial influence of Google.