My main problem with Pocket is that when Mozilla acquired them in 2017, Mozilla promised to open source the Pocket back-end. That was a big fat lie, and they've never even owned up to it.

I just don't need it. Firefox Sync allows you to sync bookmarks and pull open tabs from other systems.

I don't have a problem with Pocket qua Pocket. I didn't even have an issue with the "recommended stories" that rolled out years ago. But when I just tried FF I was appalled by the spammy "stories" all over the recommended stories section.

I'm sorry, but credit card advertisements are not stories. For the first time ever, I turned off the Pocket section, which means that instead of generating some revenue from having clicked on stories in the past, I will now generate no revenue because I won't see this section at all.