I'm truly boggled as to how many on this page seem to think the SEC's reasoning makes sense, let alone how the SEC reached this seemingly narrow-minded or lazy conclusion in the first place.
Counterpoint is when you're spending cycles thinking about the weird language you're not spending cycles on creative programming, however adding chaos and restraint is a time-tested path to innovation.
What server-side components are you referring to here? From my memory there was very little interesting private code, and I can't think of anything that would process user data that would be private.
This is so reductive I don't know where to begin, but having worked on Brave I can say that there's a lot more top of mind over there than building a browser to support BAT.
"In some ways this is a story about how I began to learn that law enforcement is there to protect some specific people (and companies), and not the general public as I imagined."