if the underlying language were Lisp or Smalltalk then implementing it thus might be a rational shoo-in.
There's also the difference in time between committed patch and end user having a new release in the case of a critical vulnerability, for instance.
Using an embedded browser framework introduces many intermediate parties, some (many?) of which might not have being up to date with the upstream as a priority – which leads to a weakened state of security in the "browsers" downstream.