[applecore]

The democratization of the web gives people who have been consumers the ability to be creators. The tools of creation belong in everyone's hands.

[nfoz]

Yes but they don't all need to be exactly a single tool, a single process! Just like I really don't want a web browser in my file manager / operating system / text editor.... wait all of that already happened. sigh.

[sigzero]

And? That doesn't mean it cannot be a plugin.

[asadotzler]

If view source had been a developer plug-in in the 90's, I'll bet there would be a lot fewer web developers today.

[mikeratcliffe]

If it was an extension we would lose stability because our devtools have unit tests that test against every Firefox change.