Depending on your point of view, the browser is more important than the operating system. That was part of the early debate about IE6, where you would be force

Depending on your point of view, the browser is more important than the operating system. That was part of the early debate about IE6, where you would be forced into an OS just to use its browser. This is part of the debate about iOS not allow alternative browser engines. That is central to Chrome becoming more and more a browser you have to use or you're a second class citizen of a whole slide of the internet. It is the whole reason Apple started Safari in the first place. I kinda see it as natural that it became a behemoth that takes incredible efforts to maintain and grow from there. I think it will take a hell of a time before we see another engine, yes. And it will probably come after a clear Google decline, or completely new applications emerging that boost new approaches to rendering. We need to pray it isn't straight bought by Google/Meta/Apple and get to live long enough to come to the mainstream independently.