Trillion dollar company with probably <100K eng, spread over hundreds of products/features/etc, who also have to go through performance reviews and have to show impact.
So yes, my choice words are very intentional in this case.
leadership to prioritize their browser -> leadership to prioritize the most popular browsers. Yes.
This should be considered malice rather than incompetence. I believe that's what others are getting at.
(On the other hand, perfectly reasonable to assert "If the rules say the market leader doesn't have to care about the welfare of others in the market, maybe those rules need to change").
"sort by revenue", or "sort by users" is not as deliberate in my opinion. But sure.
I think this is a fantasy we have about big companies, esp big tech companies, often until we work at one.
"But they have so much money, surely it wasn't just one guy working on this major thing" and "If they wanted to do it right, it would have been done right" and such.