Unfortunately, this kind of culture where you joyfully screw over your real users to chase the approval and benefit of some spherical user in a vacuum that you would like to cater to has become endemic in the free software world. It probably started with GNOME 3 (deliberately strip-mined of functionality, actively hostile to customisability, wasteful of screen space, all for the sake of chasing some HCI-prophesied transition to mobile touch devices which never came for desktop Linux), but was perfected by Mozilla in the name of security.