Comment by merelysounds
5 days ago
In theory yes. In practice, only when the interests of the sole maintainer are aligned with the interests of the users; since these can change, it’s best to avoid a monopoly.
Case in point, recent manifest v2 deprecation is generally disliked by the community and no long term blink based alternative exists (that I know of).
>is generally disliked by the community
It is disliked by a vocal minority, and of that minority even fewer actually have their own opinion based off the current version of mv3 as opposed to mindlessly parroting others. If it was a true issue then others would be maintaining mv2 support long term. In regards to monopolies in terms of control what is important is the product, browser, market share itself as opposed to that of the browser engine.