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it's like this only because nobody except me seems to prefer Firefox

I don't use Firefox because it's Firefox, I use it because it's not Chrome.

I use FF because I want to browse the web without being signed in to everything.

Exactly: Firefox doesn't add anything I want (eg. better performance, useful features, more customizability), but it doesn't do some of the bad things Chrome does, so that's why I use it.

I had to stop using Firefox because it kept using all the memory on my machine. So I am using Edge now.

Oh, I use it as well, especially on Android where it has proper support for extensions.

Except that Chrome itself emerged as an "alternative implementation". We had Mosaic which lost to Netscape which lost to IE which lost to Firefox which lost (ish) to Chrome. And in the mobile space things are still kind of wild.

If anything Chrome is an exception to the article's "Alternative Implementation Problem"; what started as Konquerer, an alternative browser, eventually mutated into the most common desktop browser currently in use.

That may be, but I'll only find out what that is when Firefox implements it...