These "lapses in judgement" are driven by Mozilla's brass representing the desires of their real masters. A post-Google Mozilla may be smaller, but I bet Firefox would be better and more popular.
I wish they'd get smaller first, build up a fund so they could literally just invest in the stock market and run indefinitely off the returns, and only then go Google-free. That would be a more permanent solution.
That sounds like it'd make less money for the CEO, why would they be interested in that?
Mozilla no longer does what is good for Firefox.
Yeah, I think getting sold to a company like Proton AG would be the better outcome for Firefox.