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How is solving merge conflicts harder than developing an entire browser engine?

Plus Igalia, MS, Mozilla, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi etc could maintain a shared fork that kept stuff like Manifestv2 if they wanted.

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The problem is that the difficult not only increases with time unbounded, but is on a steep curve. Eventually the manpower and resource required to keep up with upstream will eventually match and outstrip that required to develop and maintain a new engine.

Have you ever met a team that maintained a fork of a legacy codebase with more than 6 figures of code?

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