I think Edge is good for Chromium. That puts Microsoft as a stakeholder there too, which takes power away from Google. If Apple were to move to a chromium-backed Safari, that would mean that three major players would be stakeholders in Chromium having a sane future.
This means that if you send a meaningful patch, Google doesn't like it, but Microsoft and Apple do, it might get merged.
I kinda agree that we don't need myriad of browsers. OS and CPU duopoly seems to be kinda ok. But for something that's _supposed to_ be universal it makes no sense to encourage fragmentation...
> chromium-backed Safari
Double whammy. Chromium runs on fork of WebKit which is Safari's engine.
This means that if you send a meaningful patch, Google doesn't like it, but Microsoft and Apple do, it might get merged.