I just checked out their Discord, they're panicking because the last published build is super old and looks bad. Probably best to wait a bit before trying it out.
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The reason it supports the open Web is that Brave uses the Chromium engine used in Chrome, Edge, Opera, and basically everything but Firefox.
Firefox doesn't, and is the only thing stopping Google being the sole arbitrator of Web standards (and they do not have your best interests at heart.) Google is already abusing their near-monopoly; keeping Firefox market share high is helping stop it, though.
This browser is Firefox based, so it has all of those advantages.