[hyperpape]

Except the assumption here is that improvements must necessarily be slower. But that's not necessarily true: collaboration between Chromium and WebKit was already incredibly problematic and was definitely slowing people down (http://infrequently.org/2013/04/probably-wrong/).

So there's a tradeoff--you're splitting people's efforts, and that's bad, but you're also removing pain points that slow down development.

[gurkendoktor]

Ah, gotcha. So what I'll mourn for is not the world of four days ago - but the world before Chromium and WebKit2 had split in the first place. :)