It's not long until Brave won't be able to support Manifest V2 as Google has every interest to kill it completely.
That's true but not that big of a deal in their case. The built-in ad blocker works quite well and removes the need to run uBlock Origin.
Again, I advise against trusting anything Chromium-based.
Also, you apparently haven't heard of uBlock Origin's Medium Mode. Brave can't even touch that. There's more than just advertising to worry about on the web.
For a while Brave is going to be my stop gap browser. Hopping that Ladybird can soon replace it.
For all its flaws, Brave still annoys me less than Mozilla assh*les.
I also tried Zen Browser... lovely, but is pretty much Mozilla with a bunch of addons. The problem is, is not clear how much of the invasive Mozilla telemetry they left on their code base. Unfourtunally, any browser that orginates from mozilla bullshit, for now, I kind consider fruit of a posionous tree.