Using Blink doesn't mean you have to defer all decisions to Google. You just benefit from not having to duplicate work.
Yet somehow this argument seems to evaporate since people’s brains short circuit the moment they see the name Google.
The community can always fork and maintain a separate version of Chromium if necessary. Or does this concept only not apply to Chromium?
>work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted.
How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work?
Maintaining a fork is not fun as taking patches from the origin repo becomes more complicated the longer the fork exists and the bigger the divergence becomes.
> How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work?
It would be duplicated only if they all maintained, say, a Blink fork.