[justusw]

As far as I understand, Gecko and Blink are completely separate, and if we were to put things together with slashes, Chrome/Edge/Opera (Blink) and then Safari (WebKit) share the same lineage (and even Konqueror!). Firefox/Gecko come from a very different direction. To call out investors behind commercial project fails to acknowledge the rich OSS history behind the browser engines. By no means I intend to disregard the tremendous influence Google exerts on web standards with their browser monopoly, but putting it all in the same bin does not help the issue anymore so.

[sylware]

I don't believe in that much incompetence at this level. I believe the current landscape of "web engines" is mostly steered by the people of "vanguard/blackrock" (apple/vanguard/microsoft/etc) and that they know they have a monopoly over the web and they are trying to blur this landscape to avoid regulation. This is so accute, I am seeing toxic malice for the humanity now and nothing else.