I'm pretty sure Mozilla screwed this process deliberately. At the end of the day, their only real source of income is Google paying to be the default search eng

I'm pretty sure Mozilla screwed this process deliberately. At the end of the day, their only real source of income is Google paying to be the default search engine. So screw the users, this little annoying thing between them and their overlords... I even developed some addons for the old Firefox of the early 2000s, and nowadays I would NEVER, ever do anything to help the Mozilla foundation, such is the hate I feel towards their attitude from around 2015 on.