This was overly harsh, but Google has a lot of sway over the direction of the Chromium project which is unfortunate. Sampson from Brave also told me that they have yet to not have a patch accepted by Google. Who knows what the future holds regarding the direction of the Chromium project.

I believe we have had patches accepted by Google. But the idea that Google controls Brave because Google controls Chromium is not exactly right, IMHO. There are a lot of contributors to Chromium, from various companies. And there are a lot of projects that don't contribute to Chrome (or haven't been successful in doing so), but do patch. Brave patches Chromium (as does Microsoft). You can read more about how we deviate from the project here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...