Sounds like Brave is sore someone might keep them from skimming ad revenue off legitimate creators.
They're clearly speaking as a neutral source when to anyone with an ounce of knowledge they have a biased agenda.
Would you take an article from 1990's Microsoft about how Apple is evil seriously?
Also, pointing out a conflict of interest isn't ad hominem. I didn't call them nazis or morons.
Because Apple and likely other browsers will not adopt SXG etc, such AMP2 content will have to include a fallback link (as AMP does today). We may in such a scenario automatically prefer the non-AMP2 content.
In any case, your argument fails because we are no worse off in the worst case, and in better cases we still block many requests for greater user wins.