Might as well remove the ability to type full URLs, because our user research indicates that most users use a search engine.

Oof, I know this sarcasm, but I do have concerns that FF will eventually ditch the split view for search and address bars. I hate the unified bar, but I suspect that I'm in the minority here.

Hm, they might.

Funny thing is I had been using the address bar as search bar (removing the search bar using customization) even since before it was really supported (it just happened to work, somewhat, unreliable).

But I still hope they wouldn't do so as there are clearly situations where a combined bar just doesn't work well at all (like searching a URL or domain name in your search engine).

And if I wouldn't be using mostly a laptop and 1080p24" monitor my setup might have been different.

I use the search engine, because ever since the omnibar / awesomebar I've never fucking being able to get the autocomplete to go where I want. (It's worst on Chrome, which strongly prioritises previous search results, as if it's intentional that you always go to the search engine first...)

Yikes, don’t give their tone-deaf product managers ideas like this, they might take you seriously...