You might be right if one fix one mind on developer and latest greatest. But apple preposition at least for user might not be that. We n fact, I thought the whole point of browser is serving the user.

Until m1 I am not sure apple has the intel experience considering the hackintosh. But apple dominate for a while the developer market.

The question imho is whether apple provide a good enough solution for its users. And for monopoly I am not sure why os pre-installed browser is that relevant. Remember why edge exist. Just to download chrome.

Btw I use both as there are things can be easily done by one cannot by the others. I hope we have more. Not less.