2. Microsoft is targeting the mass consumers who are price driven.
3. It is creepy they are monitoring your traffic and making suggestions.
4. Edge is standing on the shoulders of the chrome giants.
5. Screw Edge.
To be even more specific - a browser that I can buy and get a guarantee that they will not turn me into a product later, when they're offered lots of money to do so.
Windows update? That's gonna cost you an hour. Update got botched? 2 hours, and all of your browser settings. Registry corrupted?!? 3 hours for backup and reinstall! Can't figure out how to change a setting, because the option used to be there, then disappeared in the last update? 1 hour searching SO, 1 hour crying.
However it’s your choice in this day and age to use windows.