Your speculation doesn't hold water. They have been increasing their hiring recently, and their layoffs were largely in areas where community members could power development and in experimental areas. MDN still exists and has good info. Note anyone can contribute straight on GitHub. Servo got picked up by the Linux Foundation after much of Servo already got integrated into Firefox. The Rust Foundation recently started and multiple big names have picked up large Rust contributors. So Mozilla made a smart move laying off those people. People on HN don't want to admit it.

We are talking about browsers with serious market share here, Rust and Servo are irrelevant to the future of the Web.

Let Google close the money stream and lets see what happens.

I hope to be wrong.

Well then we'll see what happens... For now it's great. Nothing is forever, even Internet explorer came to an end after its (totally undeserved) monopoly.

I would pay a lot though to keep it going. Like 100 a year or so (for me that's a lot :) )