IMO the angle back then was the mission to free the web from a corporate stranglehold — “Take Back the Web”. I believed this mission was Mozilla's primary focus

IMO the angle back then was the mission to free the web from a corporate stranglehold — “Take Back the Web”. I believed this mission was Mozilla's primary focus. That mission is even more relevant now than it was 18 (!) years ago, and yet Firefox is trying to be just another pushy lifestyle brand. They're friendly like a used car salesman. Firefox should show people (show, not “tell loudly”) that software can be a useful tool that isn't trying to trick them. A lot of people expect computers and phones to be hostile, because that's all they've ever known. Spin up a virtual machine and compare Firefox's first-run experience with GNOME Web's first-run experience. Which feels more like a tool you're in control of?