It's self-evident. I'm not talking about some shady conspiracy. Google has been keeping Firefox alive. Thus the incentives for Mozilla have been aligned with G

It's self-evident. I'm not talking about some shady conspiracy. Google has been keeping Firefox alive. Thus the incentives for Mozilla have been aligned with Google, which has an interest to plaster everything with ads, thus commercialize everything. Mozilla had to hide this obvious incentive and pretend it was on the side of the user, thus it became a wolf in sheeps clothing. Mozilla started to implement some nice privacy-preserving features, all the while knowing that including a google search with search suggestions as you type means that literally everything people type into the address bar gets send to google, making privacy impossible. The almost endless money flow from google, independent from performance, led to a strange company culture where nothing mattered anymore except having a good time with co-workers. Without the correct (monetary) incentives, there is no pressure to innovate.