Comment by account42

> Wanting niche features that don't benefit other people than those in the enthusiast core, thus preventing the company from gaining market share and revenue.

Except power user features benefit everyone even if most people will only use some of them. Power users are users and users are potential power users.

> Ever-increasing expectations in terms of visible feature delivery

There is no such expectation. In fact, I'd much prefer it if there were NO breaking changes.

> General conservativeness in terms of anything that breaks workflows

Yes, that's a very reasonable expectation for a tool that people need daily.

> Most importantly, lack of proposals for monetization from said audience

When you build infrastructure you don't go looking how to monetize your users, you look for funding. The lack of funding is 100% due to Mozilla preferring to suck on google's teat because Google doesn't question executive compensation as long as those executes do what they want.