The manifest v3 stuff was first brought onto the web via Safari and the HN defenders seemed happy about that. Why the double standard now with Google and blaming Google like they're the first?
What's not relevant about Google not being the one that created that kind of extension standard? "slapping down their near monopoly" is nonsense when the other browsers also follow the same extension approach.
Because the problem is what Google did to the standard in opposition to just about every non-Google group, not that there was a standard called "manifest v3" at all.
The final result is the only thing that matters.