Ublock Origin only exists because gorhill's original Ublock became evil due to a critical management mistake onboarding an untrustworthy parry. Everything is a risk.

I'd argue it's getting counter-intuitive though, similar to the bystander effect. Yes it is popular but if everybody thinks everyone else is verifying the source, then no one is.

When is the last time you checked out the UBO Git?

Sure, but the comment I relied to seemed SO sure that those were the only two legitimate extensions. My point was that there might be others that also have built up that level of trust, and to assume that you know the exact list of trustworthy extensions is putting too much confidence in your knowledge of everything.