On the other hand Google has been trying to end MV2 for like 5 years now and it's only been the pushback from Brave and other Chromium browsers and threat of forking that's held them back. They're terrified of forks because their browser is in maintenance mode.
It's not even the code that's the problem here, it's the 'app store'. Brave would have to create an extension 'store', merge it with the official one somehow or have two stores one for MV2 and one for Chromium. So this is an outlier in terms of amount of work involved.
Imagine how much more Google-infested Chrome would be if people couldn't just click a button and have the same browser only better.
On the other hand Google has been trying to end MV2 for like 5 years now and it's only been the pushback from Brave and other Chromium browsers and threat of forking that's held them back. They're terrified of forks because their browser is in maintenance mode.
It's not even the code that's the problem here, it's the 'app store'. Brave would have to create an extension 'store', merge it with the official one somehow or have two stores one for MV2 and one for Chromium. So this is an outlier in terms of amount of work involved.
Imagine how much more Google-infested Chrome would be if people couldn't just click a button and have the same browser only better.