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"This is why we today have more engineers than ever before working on new features for our desktop browser."

Is this true or just PR BS? Because my understanding is that they had laid off most of the desktop browser team a few years ago and there were only a few left working on it.

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Now they're based on Blink, so the they don't have to work on the core features of a browser engine. I imagine that means they have more engineers working on what they class "features for our desktop browser" as in user facing features, rather than W3C spec implementation.

Opera does still contribute quite a lot to blink/chromium (check out https://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/ which lists them), though the gist of what you've said still stands.

They laid off most of their presto team but they did higher more for the new blink browser. It doesn't matter anyway I'm sure the Chinese buying would have given them a temporary revenue

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