[jeffbee]

Man, reaching way back in history here, but this reminds me of why I stopped contributing to Mozilla decades ago. My contribution was the link toolbar, that was supposed to give a UI representation of the canonical link elements like next and prev and whatnot. At the last minute before a major release some jerkhole of a product manager at AOL cut my feature from the release. It's incredible the way such pretty bureaucrats have shaped web browsers over the years.

[shadowgovt]

Good user-facing software tends to have a coherent vision, and that involves getting features cut that people put a lot of time and effort into; even though those features have value, it's possible they don't have value in the product under development.

I don't really have enough context to say whether that was the case here. Mostly I'm raising the comment to note that this is an issue in commercial software too, but the sting is immediately moderated by "At least you got paid." It's a lot easier to see one's work fail to be reflected in the finished product when you can dry your tears with the bills in your money-pile (and I don't know how open source competes in things as cut-throat and taste-opinionated as UI when that continues to be true without solving the problem by injecting money into the process, which carries its own risks).

[throwaway290]

It's a browser. its job is render HTML

if a fix renders HTML better and more complete it should be done. it is always possible to make it configurable or change it later.

instead mozilla is pushing anti-web llm integrations.