If Mozilla shut its doors for good and Firefox became abandonware, would not all the donations and volunteer labor look for another browser project, perhaps one with a more principled stance on user privacy? Would that not be a good thing? There are some small alternative projects out there. I don’t think a political analogy is a good one. Software is not a winner-take-all market (albeit it often is anti-competitive). You can install Nyxt even though Chrome is more popular.

The (small) gopher renaissance and Gemini are good examples of how excited some people are to change what the web IS (and consequently, make hobby-browsers an option). If you can’t view documents online without millions in software development, then maybe THAT is the real problem.