> Anyone can go build a web browser if they want to.

Anyone can build a web browser that can navigate the web as it existed in the 90s, but that's not true of the modern web. To a cynical observer it would certainly appear that Google has made a concerted effort to make the web standards nearly impossible to fully implement from scratch. I look forward to seeing if Ladybird can actually become production ready and fully usable, but that effort is notable precisely because the conventional wisdom is that it's essentially impossible to compete with Google anymore with a new browser.

Only Safari really exists in a form that can check Google's power—which is ironically only possible because of Apple's walled garden that prevents all other engines from competing on their platform.