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Remember (P)NaCl? Or WebSQL? Google has a bad reputation for pushing poorly designed web "standards".

Thanks to Mozilla we then got asm.js, wich evolved into Wasm and ultimately replaced NaCl.

Now imagine there was one engine and Google could implement whatever they wanted? RIP privacy and well-designed standards.

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Don't forget Dart. They tried to push that as a replacement to JavaScript for a while. Just like what Microsoft tried with VBScript years ago.

Then Flutter came out of nowhere and reintroduced everyone to Dart again.

Why can't similar debates happen around a single engine?

Mozilla is largely Google funded anyhow. If they wanted to drop funding and go their own way they could do so anytime.

Google has far too much power over the direction of Blink for any meaningful debate to take place. They have a tendency to steamroll through already and this behavior would no doubt intensify if Blink were the only game in town.

It would have a far better chance of working if the Chrome/Blink team were spun out of Google into a nonprofit that is protected from the financial influence of Google.

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