If you think that there are engineers specifically on the Chrome/Chromium team who ARE interested in the technology, what's the chances that there are engineers on the Firefox team who feel the same?
My point being companies will always have to be monetarily-biased, and the hope is that the team working on the product itself still believe in it because they don't get much kickback from management's decisions about the technology.
It has this weird structure because the search deal makes too much money relative to donations according to IRS nonprofit rules.
If B corps existed back when this structure was created, then they would have incorporated as that, but B corps didn’t exist then, and there’s no benefit to reincorporating as a B corp now.
I know, they claim their goal is to promote the Open Web and so on... But that ideal from the 2000's is long gone at Mozilla, when you see how the leadership is acting.
Mozilla doesn't seem to have performance driven incentives. The remaining supporters of Firefox at this point are people who are mad at tech companies/care a great deal about privacy.