You seem to be assuming that the people maintaining the rules have been somewhat lazy so far. uBlock origin has the reputation of being pretty performant though

You seem to be assuming that the people maintaining the rules have been somewhat lazy so far. uBlock origin has the reputation of being pretty performant though, so I'd assume the engine and rules are already well optimized. That aside, I wouldn't want to bend backwards just to comply with how Google wants the world to work. I'd rather use Firefox.