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Safari became truly niche when they retreated from Windows. And everyone I know with a Mac uses Chrome. The only place it's relevent is on iOS, and only then because of enforcement by Apple to use their rendering engine - given the freedom, Chrome would use Chromium on iOS, and Firefox would be Gecko.

We can't even debug mobile Safari pages without a Mac. So it ends up as 'probably works' because it works in Chrome.

Safari on Mobile still has a considerable market share that is not going away. But on desktop Chrome dominates. Even on mobile, Android market share (hence Chrome) is a lot larger than Apple.

Is safari free software? I can't seem to find it in f-droid.

Newest Safari is only available for macOS and iOS.

There used to be Windows version of Safari, but it is not updated anymore.

Safari is based on Webkit/KTHML/Konqueror source code, some of the source code is public and has been contributed back from Apple to Webkit. But full source code of Safari is not public.