The Rust is a nice language, but rebuilding huge projects from scratch is usually a commercially suicidal mission.
They never "realized [they couldn't easily] make it a viable replacement" because that wasn't the goal.
Source?
It’s the first time I heard that put forward and I followed Servo pretty closely. Mozilla actually dropped Servo at a time when they drastically reduced their efforts in a lot of projects which were considered non critical to their mission.
Like the new browser engine is not critical to the mission of providing an independent open-source web browser? You're basically answering your own question. Servo was dropped because it was more than Mozilla could handle financially and in terms of time, and they would not be able to complete it within a reasonable timeframe. Do you have a source for any other reasoning?
Mozilla views its call as ensuring openness, innovation and participation on the internet. It’s pretty clear that delivering a browser has been a side goal for a long time as far as the board is concerned.
I am not understanding your call for source. You are providing your speculations. I don’t need to provide an alternative narrative. I can simply give you what Mozilla said at the time as I have already done.
Yeah, CEO's absurd salaries should come first.
/s
(Though in all fairness I find even more upsetting that The Linux Foundation, the org that now "owns" Servo, is sill not spending a single dime on its development)