I would say the opposite. IE was popular long ago because they were fastest to implement new features. IE is the reason XMLHttpRequest has such a silly name. IE supported CSS grid 5 years before anyone else[1]. The problem is they tried to force features on everyone instead of collaborating. That started decades ago with the <marquee> tag trying to stand out against netscape, and never really stopped until IE11 got feature frozen. Now IE is left with a "grid" that's different from everyone else's "grid", because everyone else waited for consensus.
Google is playing the exact same game now with things like manifest v3 and federated cohorts, etc. They're winning the game so far. They may keep winning forever, or they may not. We can only wait and see.