Regarding b): at least the author of DownThemAll!, which has ~1.2m users per [1] (which makes it the non-adblocker plugin with the highest number of users I can

Regarding b): at least the author of DownThemAll!, which has ~1.2m users per [1] (which makes it the non-adblocker plugin with the highest number of users I can find), has come out saying they won't [2]. ...and regarding a), I don't think that's all there is - FOSS projects at this point have a quite long track record of changes that were championed by the marketing crowd over the skepticism and outright opposition of the "fanatic techies" of the kind found here, such as KDE's Plasma Mobile and Mozilla's own phone OS, which turned out dead in the water exactly as the "unrepresentative" crowd expected. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/ [2] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2016-December/002367.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2016-December/...