If I may offer an explanation, I think it's because the OP is upfront about the browser being about customization and personalization. I clicked on the link fi

If I may offer an explanation, I think it's because the OP is upfront about the browser being about customization and personalization. I clicked on the link first thinking "another reskin" and expecting to see the comments you were probably also expecting. When I saw that being a good reskin was the whole point my attitude changed. (somewhat orthogonal to this post): Although I think your meta-observation is also true for other browsers like Brave (which I've seen gaining traction recently). While I bet a power user on HN could go and make chromium (or firefox) comparable, would it look the same? Would it be as easy as just installing a new one? Although although I think a lot of the "reskin" complainers are sad or upset that chromium is dominating (has dominated?) the web, and I can commiserate with them.