Everyone has to walk on eggshells around anything that might affect the Google search deal, but that's mostly it. If anything the Google money is resented, even though it also funds everything.

IMHO leadership always lacked imagination around Firefox, and never had the fortitude to back any alternate investment enough for it to succeed.

More generally I wrote a blog post with my interpretation: https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-e...