Or we can let the enemy's own resources contribute to their demise. Let Google work on Chromium, but use the browsers that take the engine and do the things that are in our interests. Brave is not implementing v3.
Brave isn't implementing v3 immediately, but Chromium is their upstream and I haven't seen them claim they will be able to resist indefinitely. They have their own non-extension adblocker for which v3/no-v3 is irrelevant.
The tweet you're referring to in the GP simply says "Brave will support Manifest V2 extensions such as uBlock Origin even after Chrome stops doing so". Which would be true statement even if that support only lasts for a day after Chrome stops supporting V2. That is to say, this does not look like a guarantee of indefinite support by any means, but rather extended support (for an undetermined amount of time).
Instead of getting attached to semantics, how about looking at it from the perspective of business and economics?
If your business depends on the idea that Big Tech can not track you, you need to do whatever it takes to keep it a reality. The cost of supporting a fork of Chromium might be too much when you are starting out, but when you are already a company of 100+ employees and 60M+ MAU, it becomes acceptable.
So, yes, if I had to guess with the information currently available, I'd say that Brave will keep away from v2 as long as it possible and as long ad the user base shows that this is what they want from their browser.