I think it is actually the other way around. We technically minded people are mostly the tastemakers on this kind of topics.

I know a lot of "normal" people using Firefox with privacy add-ons, mostly because someone knowledgeable told them to. I have often seen these people very receptive when I tell them why I deem Firefox a better Choice then Chrome.

I do however see no way to convince my coworkers to switch. And look at hacker news threads on this topic. It's always some variation of "I don't like google collecting everything I do but Mozilla did this one thing once so I can never ever use Firefox!"

So if we, the people who are supposed to be in the know don't recommend it, why would anyone who is not in the know want to use it?