There seems to be a lot of condemnation and finger wagging towards the small-time browser makers in your comment.
Do you feel that Google is being a good steward of the internet with their dominant position?
Do you feel that Google is being a good steward of the internet with their dominant position?
But at the very least, we can be honest. If Mozilla published a blog post today that said something like "While we are ideologically opposed to WebEnvironmentIntegrity, we will almost certainly be forced to implement it in Firefox eventually", my respect for them would rise tremendously.
Firefox has lost. There is no shame in admitting it. But there is shame in pretending it isn't so.
Your own phrasing indicates that there is a battle to be lost or won, and Google has indeed won. Which is pretty clearly a bad thing for the Internet as a whole, and quite good for a single company and their shareholders.
Nobody respects, or even remembers, those who fought "to the bitter end" but lost anyway.
Like, do you think it's productive to set some bait out so you can argue about something abstract or subjective like whether or people respect people who fight unwinnable battles?
What does it get you in the end?
Have you ever considered learning more effective communication techniques?
Thousands of other glorious defeats are immortalized throughout history in poetry and song.