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I agree. There's a lot that makes me prefer Firefox that's not extensions.

I barely use extensions these days. Most of what I want is built in to all the browsers now. All that's left, more or less, is some way to save articles for later and make the few I want to read now easier to follow.

Firefox has a reading mode, supports Pocket (though it's integrated now), and lets me use uBlock Origin on mobile, so it's already perfect for my needs.

^ I support the decision to simplify and modernize the architecture in Firefox, even if it does disrupt extensions.

Someone wrote this below, and I think it addresses your post perfectly:

"I welcome a replacement for XUL. Just make it a full-featured replacement, and don't cut off XUL development until said replacement is indeed full-featured and reasonably stable.

"Maybe Mozilla can't pull that off, but I would certainly like to see them try."

If they are just going to be a Chrome with less tracking I guess they could just use Chromium as a base?

Extensions is my main reason for staying with FF.