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He gains by not having to interact with them for UBOL.

When you waste people's time sometimes an apology is not enough for them to want to continue to work with you ...

An outlook like that will really limit who you work with in the future. I don't know anyone, corp or otherwise, that doesn't mess up from time to time. What matters is the acknowledgement of the mistake and taking steps to rectify it.

IMO, as much as I highly respect his products, the dev pulled a hissy fit over a mistake.

So, half of what you say matters seems to be missing.

They restored his extension (until he removed it again), what more do the Mozilla-haters want?

An apology, a post mortem, and lessons learned and implemented so it doesn’t happen again.

The unpaid dev who produces something of value to users of Firefox. Removing the addon doesn't hurt him, and may hurt Firefox if people switch to Brave over this. Mozilla need to make changes to their review process or risk losing users.

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