I question the longevity and/or motives of institutions maintaining any of those builds other than possibly Microsoft.

And believe me, if you would have asked me if trusting Microsoft was the safe bet 20 years ago, I would have said you were nuts. But here we are.

I understand questioning the motives, but does the longevity matter? I have a ton of bookmarks and some extensions, but those carry over easily across chrome variations. If Brave died next year you could switch back to chromium relatively easily, I think.

I guess, I may be missing something, and would like to know what.