What makes you think there is a connection between Firefox market share and the decisions happening at Mozilla?
This is not 2005. No matter how good Firefox is—I'd argue it's still the best browser out there—Chrome, Edge, and Safari are backed by the biggest corporations in the history of the world behind them. It's not a meritocracy. The decline could be inevitable.
By analogy, we could look at the decline of film studios. The quality of major studio films has declined with the popularity of Marvel films. From the perspective of people that care about the industry from a critical perspective, it's a disaster. From the perspective of Disney, they are merely leveraging their advantages in existing market share, brand awareness, and advertising to beat everyone else.
This is not 2005. No matter how good Firefox is—I'd argue it's still the best browser out there—Chrome, Edge, and Safari are backed by the biggest corporations in the history of the world behind them. It's not a meritocracy. The decline could be inevitable.
By analogy, we could look at the decline of film studios. The quality of major studio films has declined with the popularity of Marvel films. From the perspective of people that care about the industry from a critical perspective, it's a disaster. From the perspective of Disney, they are merely leveraging their advantages in existing market share, brand awareness, and advertising to beat everyone else.