A few others, including myself, were like... um guys, this browser is created by a company that makes its money from advertising that shows in browsers, do you really think this is going to turn out well?
The google of old might have been OK, but at this point its as tedious to hear that they are "responsibile" as it was to hear that Microsoft Windows was "more customizable" than a mac and therefore somehow better. (I still know a lot of so called geeks that are ms fans for this reason).
A generation of socially unaware engineers got too popular and laid the groundwork for a behemoth that we let get too large...
Don't worry, FAANG still exists and is a major problem, the lesson shouldn't be that we need another player, just that monopolies, or things approaching them like big business, are always bad.
So, what's the alternative here? What can people actually do to improve on things?
Chrome is hard to get away from!