And if the removal of manifest v2 allows google to abandon/remove/refactor code exposed through it (and google could even be inclined to do so deliberately)? A

And if the removal of manifest v2 allows google to abandon/remove/refactor code exposed through it (and google could even be inclined to do so deliberately)? At some point Brave would end up having to maintain its own fork, which they probably don't have the resources to do.